M. Russell Ballard Quotes
Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children.
Quotes to Explore
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
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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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Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.
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My hope is that each of the villains I write will have his or her own motivation that readers can understand, whether they agree or disagree.
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The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
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It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.
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To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.
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Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children.
