Brigham Young Quotes
If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn what is in the world, and not having your minds riveted - yes, I may say riveted - on the cross of Christ, you will go and return in vain...Let your minds be centered on your missions, and labor earnestly to bring souls to Christ.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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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.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.
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Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
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Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
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If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?
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The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?
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We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.
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It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .
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...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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No matter how much I try to be plain, people don’t accept me, so I might as well be fabulous.
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If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.
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The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.
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If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn what is in the world, and not having your minds riveted - yes, I may say riveted - on the cross of Christ, you will go and return in vain...Let your minds be centered on your missions, and labor earnestly to bring souls to Christ.
