Browsing Quotes With Tag: religious (278)
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In life all must choose at times. Sometimes, two possibilities are good; neither is evil. Usually, however, one is of greater import than the other. When in doubt, each must choose that which concerns the good of others—the greater law—rather than that which chiefly benefits ourselves—the lesser law. . . . That was the choice made in Eden.
Source: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 34-35Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Man . . . was made from different and opposite substances [i.e., dust and spirit] . . . [and] these two things contend against each other in man: so that if the [spirit of man], which has its origin from God, gains the mastery, it is immortal, and lives in perpetual light; if, on the other hand, the body shall overpower the [spirit], and subject it to its dominion, it is in everlasting darkness and death . . . [and will subject] them to everlasting punishment.
Source: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 46Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The place appointed for Adam’s residence was a garden, not an ivory house nor a palace overlaid with gold, but a garden . . . Adam too was born into humble circumstances. This is a clarion call to the Saints to live lives of simplicity rather than excess, humility rather than extravagance.
Speaker: Alonzo L. GaskillSource: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 53-54Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we “give” . . . are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God’s will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!”
Speaker: Elder Neal A. MaxwellSource: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 61Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
Posted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Until you can say 'I am my master,’ you cannot say 'I am thy servant.”
Speaker: Stephen R. CoveyPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Jesus Christ knew that the mean man’s meanness and the petty woman’s pettiness were punishment enough in themselves.
Speaker: Reed BensonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are no ordinary people. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
'Monseigneur, I beseech you not to go. You will be risking your life.’
'Is that really all, Monsieur le Maire,’ said the bishop. 'I was not put into this world to preserve my life but to protect souls.’Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from the outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls.
...A priest must never speak to protect himself against other men. Men do as God allows them to do. We may only pray to Him when we feel ourselves to be in danger, and we must pray, not for ourselves but for our brother, lest through us he fall into sin.Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As far as tithing goes, we continue to donate a large percentage to charitable organizations. It’s important to give. As my very religious friend says, “God does not need to receive, but humans need to give.” Also, the reason we give is because tithing is our way of paying our partner – God. God is the best business partner I’ve ever had. He asks for 10 percent and lets me keep the other 90 percent. You know what happens if you stop paying your partners? They stop working with you. That is why we tithe.
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 8:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
On those occasions when you don’t feel like praying, you should get on your knees and pray until you feel like praying.
Speaker: Brigham YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every night I turn all my troubles over to God… He’ll be up all night anyway.
Speaker: Jim HumphreyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Prayer keeps a man from sin, and sin keeps a man from prayer.
Speaker: Brigham YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Pray as if everything depended on God, and then work as if everything depended on you.
Speaker: Francis Cardinal SpellmanPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words, than words without heart.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
Speaker: George MeredithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Home teaching is missionary work to the member. Missionary work is home teaching to the non-member.
Speaker: Harold B. LeePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!