When you hate, you generate a reciprocal hate. When individuals hate each other, the harm is finite; but when great groups of nations hate each other, the harm may be infinite and absolute. Do not fall back upon the thought that those whom you hate deserve to be...
03017 – Guilty!
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.-----------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: Every person is guilty of all the good he or she did not do.
03001 – Much in the Window; Nothing in the Room
We have bigger houses, but smaller families;More conveniences, but less time;We have more degrees, but less sense;More knowledge, but less judgment;More experts, but more problems;More medicines, but less healthiness;We've been all the way to the moon and back,but...
02913 – Set Christ Before You
If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
02909 – Knowledge
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: Knowledge makes a person unfit to be a slave.
02363 – For the 6th Day of Christmas
I make an act of faith toward all mankind, Where doubts would linger and suspicions brood.I make an act of joy toward all sad hearts, Where laughter pales and tears abound.I make an act of strength toward feeble things, Where life grows dim and death draws near.I make...
01151 – Let Us Not Waste Time!
Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed,...
00196 – New Way to Write Headlines
Sometimes I just want it to stop. Talk of COVID, looting, brutality. I lose my way. I become convinced that this “new normal” is real life. Then I meet an 87-year-old who talks of living through polio, diphtheria, Vietnam protests and yet is still enchanted with life....