Browsing Quotes With Tag: religion (59)
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The doctrine of inspiration is lost… miracles, prophecy… the holy life, exist as ancient history [only]… men have come to speak of… revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead… It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seems to me [an]… unreasonable thing, to suppose that there should be a God… that has so much concern [for us]… and yet that He should never speak,… that there should be no word [from Him].
Speaker: Jonathan EdwardsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Perilous times? Yes. These are perilous times. But the human race has lived imperil from the time before the earth was created. Somehow, through all of the darkness, there has been a faint but beautiful light. And now with added luster it shines upon the world.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
…Do not expect the world’s solutions to the world’s problems to be very effective. Such solutions often resemble… those who go dashing back and forth with fire extinguishers in times of flood. Only the Gospel is constantly relevant, and the substitute things won’t work.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sometimes we get so focused on bringing people to the meetinghouse that we forget we are supposed to be bringing them to Christ.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For me, the essence of the Gospel is the doctrine of trying.
Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Freedom is born of obedience; the freedom to play the piano comes entirely from obedience to the laws of piano playing, from disciplined practicing, from sacrificing alternative activities to cultivate this talent. This is true in developing any talent, any skill, and virtually everyone accepts it as a fact. Why, then, is there resistance to the concept of obeying God, to keeping the commandments in the moral and spiritual realms?
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is a paradox that men will gladly devote time every day for many years to learn a science or art; yet… will expect to win a knowledge of the gospel, which comprehends all sciences and arts, through perfunctory glances at books or occasional listening to sermons.
Speaker: John A. WidstoeSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reading the experiences of others, on the revelations given to them, can never give us a comprehensive view of our condition and true relation to God. Knowledge of these things can only be obtained by experience through the ordinances of God set forth for that purpose.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Source: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We feel neither the pulse of God nor the pulse of His children unless we feel both. We can’t serve God and ignore or mistreat His children. Neither can we serve His children and ignore our common Father.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good percentage of those who left the Church in this dispensation went out confessing the sins of others – and in the name of God, at that.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In the narrow sense, activity in the Church is an occasional thing – basically meaning attending meetings and living certain well-defined and minimal laws such as tithing and the Word of Wisdom…It’s fairly easy to attend church meetings and yet be mentally and emotionally elsewhere. As they run from meeting to meeting or interview to interview, such Mormons are often characterized as poor Christians, bad neighbors, and insensitive to pressing human needs.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“We believe in Christ as we believe in the sun at noonday; not that we can see it, but that by it we can see everything else.”
Speaker: AnonymousSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one.
Speaker: John RuskinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed; and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities, the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The discipline,” repeated Jubal. “That’s what I like. The faith I was reared in didn’t require anybody to know anything. Just confess and be saved, and there you were, safe in the arms of Jesus. A man might be too stupid to count sheep… yet conclusively presumed to be one of God’s elect, guaranteed an eternity of bliss, because he had been 'converted.’ he might not even be a Bible student and certainly didn’t have to know anything else. This church doesn’t accept 'conversion’ as I grok it-”
“You grok correctly.”
“A person must start with a willingness to learn and follow it with long, hard study. I grok that is salutary.”
“More than salutary,” agreed Sam. “Indispensable. The concepts can’t be thought about without the language, and the discipline that results in this horn-of-plenty of benefits – from how to live without fighting to how to please your wife – all derive from conceptual logic… understanding who you are, why you’re here, how you tick – and behaving accordingly. Happiness is functioning the way a being is organized to function.”Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 12:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The Prophet never asserted that he was the last of all prophets nor did he claim to have said all there was to say. Submission to God’s will is not to be a robot, incapable of choice and thus of sin. Submission can include – does include – utter responsibility for the fashion in which I, and each of us, shape the universe. It is ours to turn into a heavenly garden… or to rend and destroy.”
Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 11:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Fanaticism is the opposite of love,” I said, recalling one of Khaderbhai’s lectures. “A wise man once told me – he’s a Muslim, by the way – that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Jew than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. I agree with him, and I feel the same way. I also agree with Winston Churchill , who once defined a fanatic as someone who won’t change his mind and can’t change the subject.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 10:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!