Imagine the privilege the Lord has given us of sustaining His prophet, whose counsel will be untainted, unvarnished, unmotivated by any personal aspiration, and utterly true!

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I’m lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The Corps is in good hands, and it’s been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it’s time to go.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

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.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti’s example.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.