Great Throughts Treasury

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Ezra Taft Benson

Pride does not look up to God and care about what is right. It looks sideways to man and argues who is right. Pride is manifest in the spirit of contention. Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men. Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was not my will, but thine be done (see Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42).

Comfort | Need | Prayer | Trials |

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

A man may be truly religious without imagining God as good at all, and he may be good without believing that there is any moral order in the universe or even that God exists. Religion does not necessarily make men better citizens, whether of their neighborhoods or of the world.

Quiet |

Gustavo GutiƩrrez

The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.

Thinking | Will |

Guy-Philippe Goldstein

The information technologies which were historically born from military research are, today, on the verge of developing an offensive capability of destruction, which could tomorrow, if we?re not careful, completely destroy world peace.

Good |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks, and hobgoblins.

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

Business | Business |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

Italian Proverbs

The danger past, the saint cheated.

Children | Memory |

Italian Proverbs

Nothing venture, nothing have.

Comfort | God | Light | Looks | God |

Italian Proverbs

The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

Italian Proverbs

Who has love in his heart has spurs in his sides.

Quiet |

Italian Proverbs

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |

Italian Proverbs

To promise and give nothing is comfort for a fool.

Decision | Think |

Italian Proverbs

Where there is nothing to gain, there is a lot to lose.

Example | Knowledge | Light | Think |