Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes

All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.

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• Do we mean love, when we say love?

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Love
  • Mean
  • Say

• The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • You
  • Church
  • New

• Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Life
  • Church
  • Failure

• I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Time
  • Church
  • More

• I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Exactly

• Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • High
  • Church
  • Now

• I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • God
  • Country
  • She

• He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Church
  • Walking

• The bells they sound on BredonAnd still the steeples hum.'Come all to church, good people,' -Oh, noisy bells, be dumb;I hear you, I will come.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • People
  • Good
  • Church

• Against the teachings of eternal torture, of the vicarious atonement, of the infallibility of the Bible, I levelled all the strength of my brain and tongue, and I exposed the history of the Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its oppressions.

  

  Annie Besant
  • History
  • Hand
  • Church

• The Duke, always right in his purpose but generally wrong in his practice, had stayed at home working all the morning, thereby scandalising the strict, and had gone to church alone in the afternoon, thereby offending the social.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Church

• The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain - in the people.

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • People
  • Power
  • True

• The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • History
  • Church

• I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

  

  Jacob Lew
  • Church
  • Catholic

• We went to a very liberal Episcopalian church. It didn't take for me.

  

  David Newman
  • Church

• I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentality. In this day and time, people have a fast food mentality of ministry. If it doesn't fit them or if it doesn't fit in their schedule, they'll move on to something else. That's a norm in today's time.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• The church has given me balance.

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • Church
  • Balance

• I had this moment in church, which I think really turned me off. I was 7 or 8 years old and I was sitting at church, and we happened to be playing with the sunlight that was coming down from the stained glass window, and the monsignor came down to the pew and grabbed us by our neck collars and said, 'I'll deal with you.'

  

  Jeff Fisher
  • Church

• It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Words

• How do we find something or someone we can no longer see, but which is right there before us?

  

  Fábio Moon
  • Find
  • See
  • Can

• Martin Buber as described for basic virtues cultivated by the Hasidim to overcome the separation of the sacred and secular. . . . St. Benedict spoke of them as truly seeking God, zeal for a humble way of life, zeal for obedience, and zeal for the opus of God. Buber catalogues them as kavana (single-mindedness), shiflut (humility), avada (service), and hitlahavut (fire of ecstasy).

  

  Basil Pennington
  • God
  • Separation
  • Way Of Life

• All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Church
  • Mean
  • Advancement