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Quotes by Theologian
"Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect."
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"However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights."
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"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved."
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"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."
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"Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God."
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"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."
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"I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith."
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"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins."
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"The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others."
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"We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen."
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"It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God."
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"The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God."
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"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."
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"Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ."
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"A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner."
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"Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer."
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"Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church."
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"One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality."
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"Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires."
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"To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love."
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"Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure, even when they look upon a woman."
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"Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion."
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"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
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"There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance."
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"See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security."
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"I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence."
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"Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone."
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"When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery."
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"You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love."
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"The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread."
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"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."
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"Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are."
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"It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people."
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"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven."
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"Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud."
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"Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature."
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"Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people."
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"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
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"I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace."
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"The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true."
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"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."
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"How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God."
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"Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ."
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