Category Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: A Writer Needs Three Things, Experience, Observation, and Imagination, Any Two of Which, At Times Any One of Which, Can Supply the Lack of the Others

Posted on September 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.” – William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962)

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Thought For the Day: Autumn Is A Second Spring When Every Leaf Is A Flower

Posted on September 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus

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Thought For the Day: Very Few Established Institutions, Governments, and Constitutions…Are Ever Destroyed By Their Enemies Until They Have Been Corrupted and Weakened By Their Friends

Posted on September 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Very few established institutions, governments, and constitutions … are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.” – Walter Lippmann, journalist (23 Sep 1889-1974)

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Thought For the Day: The Christian Does Not Think God Will Love Us Because We Are Good, But That God Will Make Us Good Because He Loves Us

Posted on September 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: What Power Has Love But Forgiveness?

Posted on September 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“What power has love but forgiveness?” – William Carlos Williams, poet (17 Sep 1883-1963)

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Thought For the Day: God’s Reasons For Communicating With Man Must Be Subsumed Under His Reason For Communicating To Him His Account of His Creation of the World – and Man

Posted on September 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“God’s reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world – and man.” – Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist and ethnologist

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Thought For the Day: We All Have Our Time Machines. Some Take Us Back, They’re Called Memories. Some Take Us Forward, They’re Called Dreams

Posted on September 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.” – H.G. Wells, in The Time Machine

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Thought For the Day: Courage Is the Greatest of All Virtues, Because If You Haven’t Courage, You May Not Have An Opportunity To Use Any of the Others

Posted on September 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.” – Samuel Johnson

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Thought For the Day: The Most Important Scientific Revolutions All Include, As Their Only Common Feature, the Dethronement of Human Arrogance

Posted on September 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance.” -Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, biologist, author (10 Sep 1941-2002)

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Thought For the Day: I Cannot Think of Any Need In Childhood As Strong As the Need For a Father’s Protection

Posted on September 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud

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