I believe that the word “believe” is, in its various meanings, slippery as a snake, and like the fabled snake, all too apt in a bewildered age like ours to lead us into evil, the evil of hypocrisy. The word...
To the people endowed with normal physical vision, blindness is one of the most baffling and misunderstood phenomena. Consequently, when I became totally blind at the age of 7, as a result of the combination of Ophthalmia and Cholera, I...
Examining my beliefs set me to scrutinizing my heritage. My parents made God real to me as the creator who saw everything He had made and called it good. So when I wrote the creed of Starr Commonwealth in 1913,...
This I Believe Essay: To try to live a full and expressive life was early implanted in me by my parents. The music I heard from my mother was an inspiration and a joy. What I wanted most was to...
As a sickly child of divorced parents, reared in poverty, I knew fear and want and sorrow. But as I grew older, I soon discovered, also, the gracious side of life. At 15, I was running a ranch by myself...
I’m going to emphasize just one segment of my personal creed. One of the earliest, definite influences on my life was the story of my grandfather’s earliest experience. As a young man, he left his home in Pennsylvania to start...
I believe you should enjoy life whether you like it or not. Life not enjoyed is wasted. After frustrations, despair, after each blow to the heart, I find myself springing up from the ashes in a kind of angry defiance,...
When I was 1 ½ years old, my father died after a long illness, leaving my mother with two boys, my brother, 3 years of age, and me. Due to the expenses of my father’s illness, my mother, at the...
I believe that there is a divine designer of the universe who carefully brought into being all the laws of nature. I further believe that this same divine designer makes it possible for everyone to be the architect of his...
