Thursday, January 19, 2012

4 Nephi
Nancy Baird - January 17, 2012

QUOTES FOR 4 NEPHI
NANCY BAIRD



"Happy are the people whose annals are a blank."
                               Voltaire 

"Everything I have learned in my seventy five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness."
                               Malcolm Muggeridge, A Twentieth Century Testimony.

"...the grace if God is sufficient to any transgression, and...to judge is wrong, the origin and essence of much error and cruelty."
                               Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, 155.

Marie Curie, when pressed to patent her radium extraction process, said:
    "It would be contrary to the scientific spirit.  Radium is not to enrich anyone.  It is an element; it is for all the people."
                               private files, Nancy Baird

When asked what he would do if he had it to do over, the Duke of Wellington replied:
"I would give more credit to my associates and subordinates."
                               private files, Nancy Baird


SCRIPTURES


Moses 7:18,21    "And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind."


D&C 82:19    "Every man seeking the interest of his neighbor, and doing all things with an eye single                          to God."

Jeremiah 9:8    "Their tongue is an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his                                 neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait."

Mosiah 4:26    "I would that ye should impart of your substance to the poor, every man according to                               that which he hath...both spiritually and temporally, according to their wants."

Mosiah 18:28,29    "And thus they should impart of their substance of their own free will and good                                      desires towards God...according to their needs and their wants."

Acts 2:44.45    "And all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold their                                       possessions and goods, and parted them to all man as every man had need."

D&C 51:3,9    "Edward Partridge...appoint unto this people their portions, every man equal according                          to...his wants and needs...and let every man deal honestly and be alike..."

Hebrews 6:4,5     "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the                                       heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost..."

Ether 12:8    Because of the faith of men he has shown himself unto the world, and glorified the                               name of the Father, and prepared a way that thereby others might be partakers of the
                      heavenly gift..."

Amos 7:7    "...the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.  And                           the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou?  And I said, A plumbline.  Then said the                           Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass                       by them any more."

   
  "I will set a plumbline to the heart of my people Israel..."
                    New English Bible


4 Nephi-Nancy Baird - January 17, 2012(Audio)