Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes
When I study and ponder moral agency and its eternal consequences, I realize that we are truly spirit children of God and therefore should act accordingly.
Quotes to Explore
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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I like children - fried.
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Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
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When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
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Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.
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That was the end of our voluntary searchings in the caverns of dream. Awed, shaken, and portentous, my friend who had been beyond the barrier warned me that we must never venture within those realms again.
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There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.
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School is very important to my family.
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When I study and ponder moral agency and its eternal consequences, I realize that we are truly spirit children of God and therefore should act accordingly.
