Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

Simplicity is the glory of expression. The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Character | Glory | Simplicity | Universe |

Yehuda Alharizi, also Judah ben Solomon Harizi or al-Harizi

When is a prayer heard? When the soul is subdued.

Prayer | Soul | Wisdom |

Elazar ben Azariah, alt. spelling Eleazar

Some of a man's praise may be sung in his presence, all of it in his absence.

Absence | Man | Praise | Wisdom |

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.

Glory | God | Wisdom |

William Blake

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Forgiveness | Glory | Wisdom |

L. S. Barksdale

Praise is especially destructive to children, for they readily grasp the fact that praise is based on identification with their actions. Thus, they automatically blame themselves every time they make a mistake. This is the beginning of their lack of Self-Esteem.

Beginning | Blame | Children | Esteem | Mistake | Praise | Self | Self-esteem | Time | Wisdom |

Leo Baeck

The purpose of prayer is to leave us alone with God.

God | Prayer | Purpose | Purpose | Wisdom |

William Barclay

It is a basic rule of prayer that God will never do for us what we can do for ourselves. Prayer does not do things for us; it enables us to do things for ourselves.

God | Prayer | Rule | Will | Wisdom | God |

Phillips Brooks

Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God”; for that, and that alone, is peace.

Day | Duty | God | Life | Life | Nature | Nothing | Peace | Prayer | Supplication | Trust | Wisdom | God |

William Cullen Bryant

War, like other situations of danger and of change, calls for the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of man.

Change | Danger | Glory | Man | Qualities | War | Wisdom | Danger |

John Christian Bovee

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into congenial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Children | Kindness | Life | Life | Praise | Wisdom | Words | Child |

Christian Nestell Bovee

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a congenial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Children | Kindness | Life | Life | Praise | Wisdom | Words | Child |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

Contempt | Good | Little | Man | Praise | Wisdom |

Phillips Brooks

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Prayer | Wisdom |

John Christian Bovee

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. The Chinese say, "The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall."

Character | Error | Glory | Judgment | Mistake | Time | Wisdom |

John Bowring, fully Sir John Bowring

He that studies to know duty, and labors in all things to do it, will have two heavens - one of joy, peace and comfort on earth, and the other of glory and happiness beyond the grave.

Comfort | Duty | Earth | Glory | Grave | Joy | Peace | Will | Wisdom | Happiness |