Orson Pratt Quotes

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.

Orson Pratt

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• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

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• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  

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• We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

  

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• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

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• I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

  

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• What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

  

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• I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

  

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• For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

  

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• We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

  

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• I am a businessman.

  

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• You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

  

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• I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.

  

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• For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

  

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• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

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• Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

  

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• Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.

  

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• Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

  

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• Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

  

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Christian
  • Authority
  • Modern