Quotes For 'The Soul and The Body'
Preach My Gospel, Chapter 1
May 1, 2012
Nancy Baird
"We do not preach and teach in order to 'bring people into the Church' or to increase the membership of the Church. We do not preach and teach just to persuade people to live better lives...we invite all to come unto Christ by repentance and baptism and confirmation in order to open the doors of the celestial kingdom to the sons and daughter of God. No one else can do this."
Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Preach My Gospel, 9.
"It has been decided to call some of our wise and prudent women into the missionary field."
George Q. Cannon, 1898
"There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient."
(Speaking of how we will look back on this earth life with affection and memory.)
Marilynn Robinson, Gilead, 243.
"We are living eternal life."
George Albert Smith, Teachings of the Presidents of the Church, 77.
"The root of religion is what to do with the feeling for the mystery of living, what to do with awe, wonder, and amazement. Religion begins with a consciousness that something is asked of us..."
His lifelong credo was simply expressed: "Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy."
Abraham Heschel, Jewish Rabbi, from Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf, 1977.
"For them weeding a garden all afternoon
Can't be construed as a detour from the road of life."
Carl Dennis, Poetry Magazine, May, 1998, 97.
"The cultivation of Christlike qualities is a demanding and relentless task - it is not for the seasonal worker or for those who will not stretch themselves again and again."
President Spencer W. Kimball, Ensign, Nov. 1978, 105.
"[Love is]the eternal breaking in on the temporal."
Marilynn Robinson, Gilead, 238.
"Being attentive unlocks a sphere of reality that no one suspects...I discovered that the universe consists of pressure, that every object and every living being reveals itself to us at first by a kind of quiet yet unmistakable pressure that indicates its intention and its form...Even stones are capable of weighing on us from a distance."
Jacques Lusseyran, Against the Pollution of the I, 32-22.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from a far:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God who is our home:
William Wordsworth, "Intimations of Immortality" (1804).
"We came to this earth that we might have a body and present it pure before God in the celestial kingdom. The great principle of happiness consists in having a body. The devil has no body, and herein is his punishment."
Joseph Smith, Teachings of The Prophet Joseph Smith , 181.
"One bad winter in the Arctic, and not too long ago, an Algonquin woman and her baby were left alone after everyone else in their winter camp had starved. Ernest Thompson Seton tells it. The woman walked from the camp where everyone had died, and found at a lake a cache. The cache contained one small fishhook. It was simple to rig a line, but she had no bait, and no hope of bait. The baby cried. She took a knife and cut a strip from her own thigh. She fished with the worm of her own flesh and caught a jackfish; she fed the child and herself. Of course she saved the fish gut for bait. She lived alone at the lake, on fish, until spring, when she walked out again and found people. Seton's informant had seen the scar on her thigh."
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, 12-13.
"Discouragement weakens faith."
Preach My Gospel, 10.
"In life no road can be re-traveled just as once it was. We can't begin where we were. But we can begin where we are, and in an eternity of existence, this is a reassuring fact."
Elder Richard L. Evans
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