David A. Bednar Quotes
The Lord's authorized servants repeatedly teach that one of the principal purposes of our mortal existence is to be spiritually changed and transformed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
-
I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
-
Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
-
The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
-
I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
-
Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
-
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
-
'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
-
It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
-
We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
-
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
-
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
-
革命战争是群众的战争，只有动员群众才能进行战争，只有依靠群众才能进行战争。
-
Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
-
An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.
-
Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
-
tt
-
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
-
Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.
-
I have come out in favor of birth control but sterilization is a crippling of a vital body function.
-
In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.
-
The true source of freedom is found in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Christians believe it is he who fully discloses the human potential for virtue and goodness, and it is he who liberates us from sin and darkness.
-
The Lord's authorized servants repeatedly teach that one of the principal purposes of our mortal existence is to be spiritually changed and transformed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
