Orson F. Whitney Quotes
The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
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A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.
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God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.
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It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
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There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
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May God never abandon me.
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My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.
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Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.
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The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
