Advice Is Like Snow… December 10, 1961
Among the greatest needs of mankind is that of communication⎯understanding, getting through to people⎯not just words, but meanings; not just phrases, but spirit; not just speech, but heart. So many...
Again We Turn to Happiness… January 22, 1956
“There is even happiness,” wrote Thomas Hood, “that makes the heart afraid.” There is a happiness that makes the heart afraid that it won’t last long. Life is...
Against Every Irritation March 23, 1958
In all the relationships of life, in all relationships with people, there are times that are rich and rewarding, and times that are tense and trying. This is true at home; it is true where we work;...
Against the World September 13, 1942
In the scriptural account it was said of Ishmael, before he was born: “His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.” There are some people who remind us of...
All Day We Miss Thee, Everywhere May 26, 1968
Never too far from our thoughts are questions concerning the length of life, the purpose of life-life, death, loss of loved ones, the whereabouts of those who leave us, and our own time of leaving...
All Else but Dependability November 28, 1965
As recorded in Genesis, Jacob said of one of his sons: “Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel . . . “1 “In any line of endeavor,” observed another source, “one trait...
All Present or Accounted For… March 13, 1955
It is a wonderful, comforting, reassuring feeling when parents, mentally, can call the roll, and find all the family in⎯safe and secure. When families are young in years it is comparatively easy to...
All That Could Be Made of the "Stuff" January 16, 1966
In a strong, short sentence Jean Paul Richter said: “I have made of myself all that could be made of the stuff.”1 The “stuff,” of course, is all that we have and all we are:...
All This Is Part of Happiness… January 10, 1971
There is a whimsical sentence from Kin Hubbard which says: “It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an’ wealth have both failed.”1 Beginning sendings more...
All We Could Ask of Heaven… May 25, 1958
Some thoughtful words of Addison suggest a subject: “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” In other words we...
All Your Danger Is in Discord… August 3, 1969
There are these lines from Longfellow: “All your strength is in your union.. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.”1 And he...
Always -- and Forever April 5, 1953
The longer we live the more aware we are of the shortness of this life we live, and the more aware we are of a sense of loss and of loneliness as those whom we have loved and lived among leave us...
Always Getting Ready to Live August 30, 1970
There are two sentences from ancient sources that seem to emphasize the swift passing of the seasons: One is from Epicurus, who said: “The fool, with all his other faults, has this also: he is...
Always Something to Decide January 22, 1967
“Each of us has to render a decision,” said David Starr Jordan, “to say yes or no a hundred times when our grandfathers were called upon a single time.” There are more...
And Even Forgive Ourselves August 10, 1969
All of us are aware at times of fretfulness and frustration⎯and are sometimes troubled, discouraged, and discontent, as we lose the peace and sense of purpose that are always so essential to an...
And Give Me Yesterday October 4, 1970
Some three centuries ago Thomas Browne said: “There is another man within me that’s angry with me.”1 This is descriptive of the uneasiness of those who fail to find peace inside...
And Never Cease to Search… March 20, 1955
Dangerous though truth may be at times, it is not nearly so dangerous as ignorance is. Of course, ignorance, like all the other words we use, has various definitions and degrees. There is a great...
And So He Succeeded… February 12, 1967
At a time when some seem overprivileged and some feel underprivileged, and many rebel, and many drop out and don’t prepare themselves, we are reminded that “Abraham Lincoln knew...
And So We Search… December 27, 1970
“Years following years steal something every day. At last they steal us from ourselves away:”1 These lines from Horace in some ways may be so — that each passing day steals something...
And That Has Made All the Difference August 4, 1968
In looking back we often see where we took one way instead of another⎯and what we might have done differently. This, in one sense, is what happened to Scrooge in Dicken’s Christmas Carol. He...