Brigham Young Quotes
I expect to see the day when the Elders of Israel will protect and sustain civil and religious liberty and every Constitutional right bequeathed to us by our fathers, and spread these rights abroad in connection with the Gospel for the salvation of all nations. I shall see this whether I live or die.
Quotes to Explore
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
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..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.
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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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It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.
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This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.
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I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
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Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.
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While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.
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Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do not want to go.
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I expect to see the day when the Elders of Israel will protect and sustain civil and religious liberty and every Constitutional right bequeathed to us by our fathers, and spread these rights abroad in connection with the Gospel for the salvation of all nations. I shall see this whether I live or die.
