This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Four things are required to develop generosity of spirit: (1) The intention to serve God in all our affairs. (2) The belief that if that intention is honored, the Universe will provide all that is required materially and spiritually for our success. (3) The understanding that we receive as we give, and that our own creativity is enhanced through mentoring others. (4) Practical groundedness. God can’t deliver the lottery jackpot unless we buy a ticket!
Belief | Creativity | Generosity | God | Intention | Receive | Spirit | Success | Understanding | Universe | Will | God |
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Those for whom the belief in immortality is most vivid are the most likely to practice the virtues which have a survival value and the least likely to deviate into either those virtues or those vices which are exclusively human.
Belief | Immortality | Practice | Survival | Value |
Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe
If our belief is passionate enough, the river comes to us and in whatever form the passionate belief makes possible. Belief is causative and passion is formative. Passionate belief is the chaotic attractor that lifts chaos into its particular order.
We are called upon to love in faith – to nurse our firm belief in the stars of sweet reasonableness that continue to shine behind the darkness of events which seem to us our and grim beyond our understanding.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Grief is not natural but a matter of belief or opinion.
Believe that you are receiving answers to your prayers. Belief tends to create that which is held in the mind by faith.
The belief in immortality depends finally upon the belief in God. If there exists a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of mankind toward perfection; and if there be no progress of men towards perfection, then there cannot be a good and wise God. We cannot suppose that God’s moral government, the beginnings of which we see in the world and in ourselves, will cease when we leave this life.
Belief | God | Good | Government | Immortality | Life | Life | Mankind | Men | Perfection | Progress | Will | Wise | World |
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
God | Need | Omnipotence | Order |
Faith is belief, and belief has, over and above its intellectual character, an aspect of irmness, persistence, and subjective certainty.
Belief | Character | Faith | Persistence |
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.