Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
As some of us prefer to put it, Masonry is not a religion but Religionnot a church but a worship, in which men of… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth,… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth,… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth. — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
