The person who limits his interests to the means of living without consideration of the contents or meaning of his life, is defeating God's great purpose when he brought into existence a creature with the intelligence and godlike powers that are found in man. -Aurther H, Compton
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We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers. -Author Unknown
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It is no unworthy thing to wish to count for something and to do a great work in the world; but we shall count in the final audit not by the measure of our capacity, our business, our energy, but of the tenacity and vitality of our faith and our love. -Richard Roberts
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Man has always sought the Fountain of Youth, aned never found it. Those who work with young people, however, known tha to stay young is nothing more than thinking young, being part of what is going on now, and staying close to the aspirations and enthusiasms of the young. -Henry C. Clausen
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I didn't find my friends; the good God gave them to me. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale. -J. F. Newton
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The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. -Joseph Addison
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Brotherly love is not a tangible commodity. We cannot touch it or weigh it, smell it of taste it. Yet it is a reality; it can be creative, it can be fostered, it can be made a dynamic power. The Master who has it in his Lodge and his brethren will find that Lodge and brethren give it back to him. The Master too worried over the cares of his office to express friendliness need never wonder why his Lodge seems too cold to his effort. -Carl H. Claudy
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations. -Elton Trueblood
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The recognition of one Grand Lodge by another is usually likened to diplomatic relations between one nation and another friendly nation. In Freemasonry, it means that one Grand Lodge is convinced of and admits the regularity and legality of another Grand Lodge, and of course, in such event the latter will recognize the former. -H. W. Coil
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"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. -Amos Bronson Alcott
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The purpose of the research lodge is to (1) Discover, (2) Disseminate, and (3) Preserve Masonic knowledge. By delving into source records, and biography, history, ritual and symbolism of Freemasonry is discovered. By printing the results of the researchers and distributing copies on a wide basis, this information is disseminated and preserved. Our research lodges are doing this. -W. W. Denslow
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Silences makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. -Margaret Lee Runbeck
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The George Washington Masonic National Memorial is a fitting tribute to so great a man and Mason. Its message should be as prominent in our lives as the Memorial itself in the skyline of the Federal City. Wherever we are, in Alexandria, Virginia, the District of Columbia of should be in our moral horizon, beckoning us to greater achievements as citizens and Masons. -Henry C. Clausen
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True love is like colorfast cloth, it never fades. -WRF
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Good ritualistic work is a beauty to behold. But it can only be good if it is rehearsed many times. A play, a movie, or television, has been rehearsed many, many times. Hence, many of our brethren stay home to watch television. -Author Unknown
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A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance? -J. Edgar Park
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. -Author Unknown
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Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration. -J. F. Newton
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There is no National Grand Lodge on the United States. From time to time the suggestion is made that a Grand Lodge of the United states be formed but it has never won wide support. But once a year there has been held for about fifty years a Grand Masters' and a Grand Secretary's Conferences at which common problems about Freemasonry are discussed and ideas are exchanged.
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