I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Christians are not limited to any church.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.