The torment of intentions…- Sunday, February 08, 1959
We have talked before of beginning to be what we want to be, and of the uneasy feelings that linger inside ourselves when we leave...
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The total hours of time… – Sunday, February 01, 1959
In a writing of half a century or so ago, Arnold Bennett said: “Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time. It is the...
Reading – and character and wisdom – Sunday, January 25, 1959
Seldom in life do we find ourselves living or working under ideal conditions. There are delays and distractions. There are times of waiting—waiting for people,...
…out of the best books… – Sunday, January 18, 1959
Today we should like to turn to the rich rewards of reading—not reading merely for the purpose of passing time, but for the purpose of...
Concerning inner resources… – Sunday, January 11, 1959
Because so much is done for so many of us, both by men and machines, because we have become accustomed to so much service, the...
The choice of every hour – Sunday, January 04, 1959
One of the easiest answers to anything we don't want to do, is to say we don't have time. Sometimes this is true. Sometimes it...
…Nothing that has an end is long… – Sunday, December 28, 1958
It was recorded of a certain ancient king that he lived a hundred and twenty years, and that he reigned for eighty years—longer than most...
The nearness of nineteen centuries – Sunday, December 21, 1958
We seem sometimes to consider people and events of the far past as something quite apart from the present. But they are nearer to us...
A soul in right health – Sunday, December 14, 1958
Herbert Spencer once said: “The preservation of health is a duty.”1 In other words, there is—on all of us—an obligation to keep free from contaminating...