Gregory Robson
Associate Research Professor
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Wise Words
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts."
"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He [Jesus] said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
"[W]hoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
"For peace of heart, give your heart to Christ."
"One cannot love without suffering or suffer without loving."
"Love God, serve God; everything is in that."
"The primary function of commerce is service . . . Business has a code of ethics based very largely on divine principles. When this code is followed, commerce can and does advance civilization. When it is overlooked by selfish interests, individual or national, every sort of injustice, from petty thievery to world war, may result."
"The creation of wealth is not simply a physical process and cannot be explained by a chain of cause and effect. It is determined not by objective physical facts known to any one mind but by the separate, differing, information of millions, which is precipitated in prices that serve to guide further decisions."
"Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen."
"The one thing that is never taught by any chance in the atmosphere of public schools is this: that there is a whole truth of things, and that in knowing it and speaking it we are happy."
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way . . . Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."