What the labels mean, how each passage is checked, and every source it draws on.
We do not gather quotations. We obtain complete works and take passages out of them. That is the whole difference: the reference beside a passage is filled in at the moment it is extracted, not researched afterwards, so it always points at something you can open and check for yourself.
Nothing here comes from a quotation website, a listicle or an aggregated collection — including collections belonging to other brands in this family. If the trail to a quotation dies at an aggregator, the quotation does not enter.
Which topic a passage sits under is an editorial judgement, not a claim about its meaning. Those groupings are reviewed and re-cut as the collection grows.
Scripture is the King James text, quoted by book, chapter and verse. Public-domain works are complete books we hold — Augustine to Andrew Murray — quoted by chapter and paragraph. Contemporary voices are writers still in copyright, quoted in short attributed extract. You can draw from any one of the three on the explorer, or from all of them together.
Tier A means the passage was taken straight out of a source text we hold, so its reference points at something checkable. That is almost the entire collection. Tier B means a voice quoted in short extract from a work still in copyright. Every Tier B passage is checked against the full text of scanned published books before it appears — if the wording cannot be found in print, it is rejected rather than printed with a hopeful attribution. Quotation with proper acknowledgement is expressly permitted under section 12(3) of the Copyright Act 98 of 1978; what we will not do is print something that is not real.
The five practices this whole brand is built on. A teal label says the passage speaks to that practice, so you can follow one practice straight through the collection. Click any label on the explorer to draw only from passages carrying it. Roughly seven in ten passages have one; the rest simply are not about a practice, and we would rather leave the label off than force it.
These are not ours. They are the recognised wellbeing frameworks already used in schools, workplaces and health services, and an amber label marks which element of which framework a passage speaks to. Click one on the explorer and it draws only from passages for that element — so if your school runs SEARCH, you can go straight to Attention & awareness without learning our vocabulary first.
Each framework belongs to the researchers who built it. They are named here.
Opens a short note saying what kind of writing the passage is — a psalm, a proverb, a letter to one congregation — and quotes the lines immediately before and after it, so you can see the setting. It never tells you what the passage means or what to do about it. That is not ours to say. For contemporary voices the note is headed “Why this is here”, and it is our framing of why the passage earns its place — the framing is the only part we claim.
The amber labels come from ten established wellbeing frameworks — the models already in use in schools, workplaces and health services. They are not ours, and they are not what this brand teaches. We label against them so that you do not have to learn our vocabulary to use the collection: if your school runs SEARCH or your workplace runs PERMAH, you can go straight to the element you already know.
Each has its own page setting out what every element means and which passages speak to it.
All ten frameworks, with every element →
None of these words are ours. Every passage belongs to the work it was taken from, and every work is listed here with the terms under which it is quoted.