The voices quoted around our fire — prophets, poets, presidents, and pilgrims — and the entries where each one speaks.
2 Kings 22:8
2 Kings 6:16–17
Abigail Adams
- Great Necessities Call Out Great Virtues (2026-07-05)
John Adams
- The Liberty to Study Poetry (2026-07-03)
Robert Baden-Powell
- The Most Worth-While Thing (2026-06-06)
Henry Ward Beecher
- What Posterity Hears — Henry Ward Beecher (2026-06-21)
Ludwig van Beethoven
- — Seizing Fate — (2026-03-22)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Not to Speak Is to Speak (2026-06-30)
Frederick Buechner
- Beautiful and Terrible (2026-01-07)
Warren Buffett
- The Price of a Day — Warren Buffett (2026-06-23)
Attributed to Winston Churchill
- The Courage to Continue (2026-06-30)
Confucius
- The Steadfast Soul (2026-06-09)
Charles Dickens
- Go On in Hope (2026-02-23)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Cost of the Real Thing (2026-06-24)
Thomas A. Edison
- One More Time — Thomas Edison (2026-06-20)
George Eliot
- The Only Reason — George Eliot (2026-06-22)
Viktor Frankl
- The Last of Human Freedoms (2026-01-03)
Robert Frost
- The Way Out Is Through (2026-03-05)
Václav Havel
- The Ground Beneath the Outcome (2026-05-31)
Joseph Joubert
- The Evening Brings Its Lamps (2026-07-01)
John Keats
- The Vale of Soul-Making (2026-06-11)
Spencer W. Kimball
- A Blessing, Not a Beggar (2026-06-06)
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- The Light Within (2026-05-20)
C.S. Lewis
- — The Lamp Within — (2026-01-01)
- The Same Person in Every Room (2026-02-06)
Max Lucado
- The Worthwhile Arrival (2026-06-25)
Nelson Mandela
- The Courage to Begin (2026-06-05)
Henry Miller
- The Only Hunger That Never Ends (2026-06-14)
Mary Anne Radmacher
- The Quiet Voice (2026-06-15)
Socrates
- The Practice of Becoming (2026-06-08)
Robert Louis Stevenson
- Seeds, Not Harvest (2026-06-06)
- An Honest Friend (2026-06-17)
Mother Teresa
- The Weight of Words (2026-01-24)
Leo Tolstoy
- The Two Great Warriors (2026-02-05)
Voltaire
- The Edge of What We Know (2026-06-04)
Booker T. Washington
- The Measure of the Climb (2026-03-09)
James N. Watkins
- The Patience of Water (2026-06-06)
Simone Weil
- The Gift of the Present Gaze (2026-06-10)
Drawn from 48 entries · refreshed July 24, 2026