George Q. Cannon Quotes
Every foundation stone that is laid for a Temple, and every Temple completed according to the order the Lord has revealed for his holy Priesthood, lessens the power of Satan on the earth, and increases the power of God and Godliness.
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I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
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The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.
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But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
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The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
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The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.
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Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
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If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
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If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
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Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.
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The issue is a stone in the show.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
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You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
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Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds,reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper.Mine, said the scissors,mine all the knivesgashing through paper'sethereal lives;nothing's so properas tattering wishes.As stone crushes scissors,as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper,all end alone.So heap up your paperand scissor your wishesand uproot the stonefrom the top of the hill.They all end aloneas you will, you will.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
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Every foundation stone that is laid for a Temple, and every Temple completed according to the order the Lord has revealed for his holy Priesthood, lessens the power of Satan on the earth, and increases the power of God and Godliness.
