Youth--and Uncertainties and Decisions May 22, 1960
Decisions are difficult for everyone⎯and perhaps especially for those who are pursuing or finishing their period of preparation: where to work, when to marry, how long to prepare, what commitments...
Your Name Is Safe in Our Home March 8, 1959
“Your name is safe in our home.”1 Do we speak as well of our friends when they are absent as when they are with us? It would sometimes seem hazardous to be absent from some kinds of...
Your Face June 7, 1970
“God has given you one face,” said Shakespeare, “and you make yourselves another.”1 A face isn’t just features and skin⎯it’s a soul, a mind, a heart put into...
Your Children to Whom You Must Relinquish All February 28, 1971
“Could I climb to the highest place in Athens,” said Socrates, “I would lift up my voice and proclaim: “Fellow citizens, why do ye turn and scrape every stone to gather...
Young People--and Independence August 3, 1952
There are periods perhaps in the lives of most young people when they are impatient with counsel and precautions, when they wonder why they have to be responsible to parents, why they cannot have...
Young People With Problems May 19, 1968
On the question of law and order, and young people with problems, a panel of internationally eminent law enforcement officers had these significant things to say: that there is about a fifty-fifty...
You…grown Older… June 29, 1969
“There is an old man up there ahead of you that ought to know. He looks somewhat like you, talks like you, walks like you. He has your nose, your eyes, your chin: and whether he loves you or...
You Two… Build Your Own Quiet World August 21, 1966
All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself....
You May Be Mistaken… January 13, 1957
We often hear the trite expression that there are always two sides to a subject. And one thing that makes quarrels and misunderstandings and differences so difficult to settle is that so often there...
You Don't Know What You're Missing! February 4, 1951
You Can't Go Back August 8, 1943
Perhaps most of us at times cherish the thought that we would like to go back⎯back to try over⎯or back to enjoy once more the reality of some of our memories. But places long unseen often loom...
You Can't Go Back October 17, 1948
You Can't "Save" Time April 24, 1949
One of the relentless things about life is that it is passing. Time spends itself no matter what we do with it. It moves at its own pace, and we can’t “save” any part of it. The...
You Can Go On October 25, 1970
There are many in this world who live heroically in simple, daily, faithful service⎯people often unknown; often unnoticed; often discouraged; sometimes tried and tempted; sometimes feeling they must...
You Are the Window… October 10, 1971
There is a remarkable sentence from George Bernard Shaw: “Better keep yourself clean and bright,” he said. “You are the window through which you must see the world.”1 As we...
You Are Going to Meet Again March 31, 1968
“We are all of us fellow-passengers on one and the same planet,” “We are all of us fellow-passengers on one and the same planet,”1 said Hendrick Van Loon. And if we ever...
Yesterday's Tomorrow January 21, 1945
Yesterday's Tomorrow October 17, 1943
One of the distinguishing attributes of intelligence in men is the faculty of thinking and planning for the future. It is this that causes us to plant to that we may harvest⎯that gives us the wisdom...
Work…and Worry… May 31, 1953
There are situations and circumstances that would prematurely wear us all ways if we would let them. There are rough, eroding experiences that, with some of, leave raw, deep wounds, but with others...
Work: Satisfaction and Shock Absorber September 11, 1960
In living with ourselves, and in learning to live with life, work is one of life’s surest satisfactions, and one of its surest shock absorbers. Work is much less wearing than worry, and often...