"If you will earnestly seek guidance from your Heavenly Father, morning and evening, you will be given the strength to shun any temptation."
- President Ezra Taft Benson
"Someone has written: '...the witholding of love is the negation of the spirit of Christ, the proof that we never knew him, that for us he lived in vain. It means that he suggested nothing in all our thoughts, that we were not once near enough to him to be seized with the spell of his compassion for the world.'
"What is our response when we are offended, misunderstood, unfairly or unkindly treated, or sinned against, made an offender for a word, falsely accused, passed over, hurt by those we love, our offerings rejected?...The nature of our response to such situations may well determine the nature and quality of our lives, here and eternally...
- Elder Marion D. Hanks, Conference Oct. 1973, pg15-16
"That school stuff is crazy. You're never more motivated then when you pay someone else to give you a bunch of crap to do and your only recompense is that they give you a good grade before they discard your work. I'm not cynical. I just find it amusing that I lack motivation at work when thousands of dollars may be on the line, but was never demotivated at school."
- Brett Alder
'A principle gives you a local evaluation for a long term concequence' (or something close to that--from his Multi-Agent Systems class)
- Dr. Goodrich
"Truth is obeyed when it is loved."
- Brigham Young
"All that's necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- famous adage
"Respect for self is the beginning of virtue in men. That man who knows that he is a child of God, created in the image of a divine Father and gifted with a potential for the exercise of great and godlike virtues, will discipline himself against the sordid, lascivious elements to which all are exposed."
- Gordan B. Hinckley
"...if you wish [your children] to love the truth and understand it, if you wish them to be obedient to and united with you, love them! ...The man that will be angry at his boy and try to correct him while he is in anger is in the greatest fault; he is more to be pitied and more to be condemned than the child who has done wrong. You can only correct your children in love, in kindenss--by love unfeigned, by persuasion and reason."
- Joseph F. Smith
"Trustworthiness, stick-to-it-iveness, and determination are the qualities that will help you to win the battle of life."
- Heber J. Grant
"We can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and say, because they cannot do as well as somebody else, that they well not do anything. God has given to some people ten talents, to others, he has given one; but they who improve the one talent will live to see the day when they will far outshine those who have ten talents but fail to improve them."
- Heber J. Grant
"If, in the end you have not chosen the Gospel of Jesus Christ, it won't matter what you have chosen."
-Barbara Neuenswander
"Conversion is fanning divine embers."
- Ben Bronson
"Preach Christ all the time - and only as a last resort use words."
- St. Francis of Assisi
"Everybody has good in him if you look for it. I heard a phrase once, and I love it. It says 'speak to the King and the King steps out.'"
-Laurie Williams
"Striving can be more important than arriving."
- Elder Marvin J. Ashton
"What is the best way to know if we are coming to Christ? The way we treat other people."
- Elder Marvin J. Ashton
"Welfare is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable."
- Pres. Spencer W. Kimball
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness - only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate - only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King
"Not he who merely succeeds in making a fortune, and in so doing blunts the natural affections of the heart, and chases therefrom the love of his fellows, can be said to be truly successful: but he who so lives that those who know him best shall love him most; and that God, who knows not only his deeds, but also the inmost sentiments of his heart, shall love him: of such an one only--notwithstanding he may die in poverty--can it be said indeed and of a truth, 'he should be crowned with the wreath of success.'"
- Heber J. Grant
"It will be regrettable if this program, by making polygamy the subject of entertainment, minimizes the seriousness of that problem and add to the suffering of abuse victims. 'Big Love,' like so many other television programming, is essentially lazy and indulgent entertainment that does nothing for our society and will never nourish great minds."
- Part of the Church's new release concerning the new show coming out called 'Big Love', and HBO series about a family whose dad is the father of a polygamist clan. The series is in Salt Lake City.
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