When Your Heart Tells You Things Your Mind Does Not Know January 18, 1970
There is this phrase, cited by a thoughtful friend: “…when your heart tells you things your mind does not know.”1 All of us have impressions, promptings, sometimes a sense of warning; an...
When You Reach September September 19, 1971
There is something glorious yet sobering about the swift passing seasons⎯spring, summer, fall⎯and winter follows⎯and there is much we’ve done, much we might have done, much we should have done...
When You Make a Mistake… April 20, 1969
“When you make a mistake,” said Hugh White, “take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The...
When to Say It--and When to Be Silent June 27, 1954
As was observed many centuries ago: There is “a time to every purpose . . . ” And there are times when some things should be said, and times to keep silent. There are times when we are...
When to Repent and Improve… January 3, 1960
We are disposed to attach particular significance to certain times and seasons. We look to special days and anniversaries and events. We speak of special hours the eleventh hour, the midnight hour....
When People Once Are in the Wrong… January 12, 1969
“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it,” said Confucius, “is committing another mistake.” 1 Having in mind that all of us make mistakes, we turn to...
When It Happens--if It Happens January 23, 1966
In an essay “On Tranquility of Mind,” Seneca wrote some sentences concerning the disappointment, the discouragement, the sorrows that sometime come to all of us. “No one could...
When Is Youth? Who Is Youth? June 28, 1970
So much is said concerning the problems of youth; the education, the attitudes, and actions; the rights and responsibilities; the privileges and possibilities of youth—from all of which come these...
When I Do Good… September 8, 1968
We still remember the voice saying sincerely: “A good feeling comes into my heart when I do the things I know are right.” Since the universe is run by Law, since nature lives by law,...
When Death Comes May 30, 1948
In a letter to a friend, Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “There is a fulness of time when men should go.” This may be easy to understand when men have reached an age that is old and have...
When Can We "Let Down" In Life? March 8, 1964
Sometimes after long effort, long work, we may ask ourselves when can we relax? When can we let down in life? There must be some diversions. We cannot drive ourselves all the time, nor be on tension...
When Are We Going to Get There? July 10, 1955
A frequent question from those who are going somewhere is this: “When are we going to get there?” It is a question typical of children headed for picnic places. It is a question typical...
When a Mouse Falls Into a Meal Sack… August 17, 1952
There is an old Dutch proverb that reads, “When a mouse falls into a meal sack, he thinks he is the miller himself.”which suggests something of the sincere humility that all of us should...
When a Child Begins to Ask Questions… October 13, 1968
A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions. Children often penetrate us to the very center of our souls, and in their honest, searching innocence reveal to us our...
Whatever Work Is… September 6, 1964
“Without some goal and some effort to reach it,” said Dostoevsky, “no man can live.” “The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he...
Whatever Else She Is… May 24, 1959
In considering ideals and objectives, and the sometimes overemphasis on social considerations, and appeals merely to appearance, Ruskin wrote: “The courage or sincerity [of girls is hardly]...
What's Past Is Prologue January 4, 1953
There is a comforting line from Shakespeare which in one short sentence has much to suggest: “What’s past is prologue.” It is a plea for hope, for new beginnings, for not brooding...
What Will It Matter a Hundred Years From Now! March 26, 1944
Sometimes we hear someone shrug off a puzzling or disappointing situation with the comment, “What will it matter a hundred years from now?” This may be just a causal way of by-passing...
What Will It Matter a Hundred Years From Now! July 25, 1948
What Will It Do to the Man? March 1, 1959
Whenever policies or products or principles, or actions or attitudes were under consideration, a certain thoughtful observer often asked this challenging, this compelling question: “What will...