A Living Gratitude November 24, 1957
It is sobering, or should be, to each and all of us to consider how much of the hours and effort of others has gone into the making of all of us: the time others have taken to feed us, to teach us,...
A Look at Pleasure and Leisure March 15, 1964
As to pleasure and leisure and their place and importance: While there is need for leisure and relaxing, it is not good to have too many unoccupied hours; for there is too much too little time to do...
A Man and His Price March 2, 1947
It is sometimes cynically said that every man has his price which is to say that there is no honor or honesty, no virtue or verity, no patriotism or principle that will not be violated or...
A Man on His Knees February 7, 1965
We turn today to a sentence which says: “There is no limit to the reach and power of prayer.” Not only is there no limit, but in some situations there is no substitute—as many have come...
A Man Unconscious of His Faults May 7, 1961
It was said of a well-known person of the past, “Her vanity was too fundamental for her to profit by the stern lessons of experience. She could not face the fact that she was wrong, so she was...
A Matter of Semantics… April 25, 1954
Perhaps it has always been so; certainly during our day it seems increasingly to have been so: that custom and connotation have changed the meaning of words, and that men have found new ways for...
A Mother, A Father--Waiting May 20, 1962
“The memory of a mother waiting is a safeguard against temptation.” A mother, a father⎯a parent⎯who cares enough to wait and worry, who cares enough to counsel and be concerned⎯is among...
A Mother's Love Outlives Them All May 11, 1958
Blessedly, in the lives of most of us, there are saving and safeguarding influences moving in the background, molding and mellowing and maturing us—influences of which we are often unaware. And one...
A New Crop of Fools Comes On… October 24, 1971
A New Crop of Fools Comes On… July 6, 1969
This message was sent to a president of the United States by a group of concerned young people: “We stand for preservation of our heritage through obedience to law.”1 Without law, we...
A Overweight of Worry…, January 10, 1965
There are many who carry the worries of the present reasonably well. But there are some who won’t let go of worries of the past, and even try to take on the worries of the future—and they do...
A Passing Season… August 25, 1963
As we see a passing season, we sometimes seem to want to hold it harder to make up for some things we have not done. Sometimes we yearn to recover lost time, to go back to our youth, or some period...
A Perspective on Being Busy July 23, 1961
In this prefabricated, prepackaged period, much of what we use comes through machinery and assembly lines, and is so well organized and operated that we are hardly aware of the effort of anyone....
A Persuasion, Authority, and Fo May 18, 1947
We have heard much of such words as arbitration, negotiation, conciliation. They are technical terms, with many shades of meaning. But their over-all sense, in public procedure, implies the settling...
A Prompt and Decided "No" February 24, 1963
“Through our weakened power or personal judgment we have vacillated for years on the knife-edge of indecision,” said Dr. Foster Kennedy⎯and a vacillating indecision is one of...
A Question of Convenience September 30, 1962
We turn to what could be called a question of convenience: the doing of things when they should be done, or dodging them⎯the whole habit of postponing, delaying, of learning only reluctantly, of...
A Quiet Faith Within March 3, 1940
There are many theories and philosophies of life⎯and in some measure each one makes his own. But what each one should ask himself concerning his belief, his outlook on life, it this: What does it do...
A Quota of Mistakes July 11, 1965
In explaining an obvious error, an observant person replied: “If I make one mistake again, then I should be seriously concerned.” This would seem to be good counsel, except as it may too...
A Short Walk… That Never Ends December 6, 1959
“Life is a short walk along a narrow thread . . . beginning and ending in a mysterious unknown. Hope keeps us balanced as we walk the narrow line. Life is short as we see it, but in reality ....
A Soul in Right Health… December 14, 1958
“The preservation of health is a duty.”1 In other words, there is — on all of us — an obligation to keep free from contaminating and injurious substances and habits and influences that...