Brigham Young Quotes
While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging to the Deity that is purely philosophical. The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural action. He partook of flesh and blood - was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers.
Quotes to Explore
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.
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Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.
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We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.
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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.
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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
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When the public doesn't want me any longer, I'll quit.
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
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The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.
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Step not beyond the beam of the balance.
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I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
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Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
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While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging to the Deity that is purely philosophical. The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural action. He partook of flesh and blood - was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers.
