Category Archives: Inspirational

It’s Not How Long You Hang Around That Counts

Posted on February 19, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Charles Steinmetz was the engineer who designed the massive generators that made General Electrics one of America’s greatest corporations. After he retired those generators broke down and no-one could get them going. So eventually they called Steinmetz back. He puttered … Continue reading →

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The Secret of Answered Prayer

Posted on February 9, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

There’s a wonderful line in Solzhenitsyn’s famous novel ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’. The story is set in the hell of a Soviet prison camp, and one day Ivan is praying silently with his eyes closed, when … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Furniture

Posted on February 6, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

The eminent psychologist Martin Seligman said that we need to ask ourselves why our grandparents didn’t become depressed in the same way we do when they were thwarted, when the people they love rejected them and they didn’t get the … Continue reading →

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Don’t Worry; Be Happy!

Posted on February 4, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

They say that a dense fog covering seven city blocks to a depth of a hundred feet, if it could be condensed into water, would contain less than one glass of liquid. Now compare this to the things we spend … Continue reading →

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Intuiting God

Posted on January 27, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Some people wonder why God, if he exists, doesn’t make it easier for us to take notice of him; why he doesn’t remove all doubt by making an appearance – like breaking in on the TV waves and saying, “I’m … Continue reading →

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Finding Happiness

Posted on January 23, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

The American Constitution, among other things, guarantees ‘the pursuit of happiness,’ – not happiness itself, just the pursuit of it. One cynic claimed that happiness is built on the unhappiness of others. Albert Schweitzer thought that happiness was nothing more … Continue reading →

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If I Were a Rich Man

Posted on January 15, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

At the height of his fame the writer Rudyard Kipling was invited to address a large gathering of university students in Canada. In his address he made this profound statement: ‘Some day,’ he said, ‘you will meet a man who … Continue reading →

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Believing When You Can’t See

Posted on January 11, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

One of my favourite inspirational sayings was found scratched on the wall of a cellar in Germany after the end of World War 2. Beside it was a Star of David that indicated It had been written by some nameless … Continue reading →

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It’s the Last Laugh that Counts

Posted on January 5, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Listening to the more strident members of the current batch of atheist fundamentalists one might easily get the impression that they have a monopoly on intellect, dismissing faith and belief in a spiritual reality as nothing more than ignorance and … Continue reading →

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Made for Something Bigger

Posted on December 31, 2012 by vincentsmithauthor

There’s a lovely poem by Wordsworth called ‘Intimations of Immortality’ which includes these words: ‘Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life’s star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from … Continue reading →

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