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Happiness is the object and design of our existence and
will be the end thereof if we pursue the path which leads to it.
—Joseph Smith
Behold, I say unto you, wickedness never was happiness.
—Alma 41:10
If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
—Matthew 19:17
Was it careful creation or magical moss that gave us the
gift of life?.....Think.
—Ralph Sheffield
Subtle is the Lord God, but malicious He is not.
—Albert Einstein
If a clock proves the existence of a clock-maker, and
the world does not prove the existence of a Supreme Architect, then I
consent to be called a fool.
—Voltaire
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant
struggle.
—George Orwell
We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of
wonders.
—G. K. Chesterton
Lay hold on eternal life…avoiding profane and vain
babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.
—I Timothy 6:19-20
Faith is the one thing needful; how, with it, Martyrs
can endure shame and the cross; and without it,
Worldlings puke-up
their sick existence by suicide in the midst of luxury. —Thomas
—Carlyle
Faith cometh by [receiving] the word of God.
—Romans 10:17
The relations which exist
between man and his Maker, and
the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and
important to every human being, and the most incumbent on his study and
investigation.
—Thomas Jefferson
Weave into the tapestry of your life the golden threads
of prayer, study, reflection, service, and heeding the voice of God.
—Ralph Sheffield
Put your trust in that Spirit which leadeth to do
good—yea, to do justly, to walk humbly, to judge righteously; and this
is my Spirit.
—Doctrine & Covenants
50:23
All mankind are divided into three classes: Those that
are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
—Arabian Proverb
Every situation—no, every moment—is of infinite worth; for it is the
representative of a whole eternity.
—Goethe
The way to be nothing is to do nothing.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!
—Neal A. Maxwell
Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that
put darkness for light, and light for darkness.
—Isaiah 5:20
Those who corrupt themselves with vices and drugs, and
the human parasites who traffic them shall reap sufferings more severe
than they anticipate for this affront to their Creator.
—Ralph Sheffield
Be not deceived—neither fornicators nor…adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind [homosexuals], nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards…shall inherit the kingdom of God.
—I Corinthians 6:9-10
The guilty taketh the truth to be hard for it cutteth
them to the very center.
—I Nephi 16:2
Violence is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old
law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind....It seeks to
annihilate rather than convert....It leaves society in monologue rather
than dialogue.Violence ends by defeating itself.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Men owe no allegiance to religion forced on their
progenitors by the sword, for this is the the very work of
evil—positing tyranny as truth, loathing as living, preferring death
over discernment, murder over mind.
—Ralph Sheffield
Next to the human spirit, the human body is the most
marvelous of God’s creations.
—Sterling W. Sill
If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have
had the good fortune to be born human.
—Ihara Saikaku
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Your body becomes an instrument of your mind and the
foundation of your character.
—Boyd K. Packer
The wise learn by precept—fools by punishment, if at all.
—Ralph Sheffield
Behold, at that day Satan shall rage in the hearts of
men, and stir them up to anger against that which is good. And others
will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security. Others, he
flattereth away, and telleth them: I am no devil for there is none—and
thus he whispereth, until he grasps them.
—2 Nephi 28:20-22
Therefore, I command you to repent—repent, lest I smite
you by my wrath, and by my anger, and your sufferings be sore—how sore
you know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you
know not.
—Doctrine & Covenants
19:15
By this ye may know if a man repenteth of his
sins—behold, he will confess them and forsake them.
—Doctrine & Covenants
58:43
Whether you think you can, or can’t—you’re right.
—Henry Ford
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
—African Proverb
If you can control your thoughts, you can overcome
habits.
—Boyd K. Packer
Remember, the rabbit's foot didn't work for the rabbit.
—Unknown
When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth
something.
—Robert Browning
The Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men
save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing
which he commandeth them.
—I Nephi 3:7
“As a man thinketh, so is he.”—Sow a thought, reap an
act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a
character, reap a destiny!
—Samuel Smiles (after
Heraclitus)
Those who honor a truth not because it is true but
because it is powerful [in vogue] will fall out by the way, because the
soil [of their character] has not depth to nourish the seeds of truth.
—Brigham Young
By so many roots as the marsh grass sends in the sod I
will lay me a hold on the greatness of God.
—Sidney Lanier
There is no other way nor means whereby man can be
saved, only through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. Remember, he
cometh not to redeem them in their sins, but to redeem them from their
sins.
—Helaman 5:8-9
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he
cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
—John 3:5
Because [their] iniquity shall abound, the love of many
shall wax cold. But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be
saved.
—Matthew 24:12-13
I can do all things through Christ [who] strengtheneth
me.
—Philippians 4:13
Wherefore, ye must press forward in Christ.
—2 Nephi 31:20
God hasn’t called me to be successful. He’s called me to
be faithful.
—Teresa of Calcutta
This day of life is given us to prepare for eternity.
—Alma 34:33
Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings and he will
direct thee for good.
—Alma 37:37
No one ever fell off a precipice who never went near one.
—Richard L. Evans
He who doeth the works of [God’s] righteousness shall
have his reward, even peace in this world, and eternal life in the
world to come.
—Doctrine & Covenants
59:23
The only sure and permanent foundation of virtue is
religion.
—Abigail Adams
The difference between Christianity and Churchianity
is heaven or hell.
—Ralph Sheffield
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