The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a…

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

— Simone Weil

Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

— Charles Krauthammer

The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage…

— Peter Kreeft

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

— Julia Cameron

“To finally surrender ourselves to healing, we have to have three spaces opened up within us - and all at the same time: our…

— Richard Rohr

In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done…God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life spent serving…

— Joan D. Chittister

“Whether we understand work spiritually depends in large part on whether we understand the economy spiritually. If we view the economy materialistically, thinking that…

— Greg Forster

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest…

— Simone Weil

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of…

— H. L. Mencken

New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with…

— John Gunther

Making others happy through kindness of speech and sincerity of advice is a sign of true greatness.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be…

— Grenville Kleiser

True greatness,true leadership,is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. True service is never…

— J. Oswald Sanders

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.

— Yousuf Karsh

A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of…

— Calvin Coolidge