3 Nephi 23 - 26 Nancy Baird - January 3, 2012

QUOTES FOR 3 NEPHI 23-26
Sisters in Scripture
Jan 3, 2012

    “We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than by passing quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.”  
                                     Henry B. Eyring, Conference Report, Oct. 1997, 114-15




    “I hope that for you [studying the scriptures] will become a love affair with the word of God.”
    President Gordon B. Hinckley, “The Light within You,” Ensign, May 1995, 99)



    “…search the scriptures, search the Prophets, and learn what portion of them belongs to you.”       
                                           Joseph Smith, History of the Church, 1:282


 “[One]reason for repeated reading of the scriptures is that many of the prophecies and doctrinal passages in the scriptures have multiple meanings” and “multiple fulfillments…”    
          Dallin H. Oaks, “Scripture Reading and Revelation,” Ensign, Jan 1995, 8



In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens has Scrooge say:
    “…You were always a good man in business, Jacob.”
The ghost of Jacob Marley replies:  “Business! Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business.  The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business.”



“One death is a tragedy; a million deaths are a statistic.”
                                                                 Joseph Stalin



 “We live on dead people’s heads.  Scratching under a suburb in St. Louis, archaeologists recently found 13 settlements, one on top of each other, some of which lasted longer than St. Louis has… And in France, 60 layers of human occupation…We are only about 300 generations from ten thousand years ago.
                                                                   Annie Dillard, For The Time Being, 124


    “How much larger your life would be if you sought to become smaller in it, if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure.  You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theater in which your own little plot is always being played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky and in a street full of splendid strangers.”
                                                               C. K. Chesterton, (Nancy Baird, private files)



Isaiah 58:11,12
    “…thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
    And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.”



3 Nephi 23-26 -Nancy Baird - January 3, 2012 (Audio)