Every wise man lives in an observatory.
Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. Now, let all who may hear these doctrines, pause before they make light of them, or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation
No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.
I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.
If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.
There have been those moments in my life - in all of our lives - where you think, "I could literally be dead at any moment. " Once you go down the rabbit hole, you realize how precious life is and you realize you never realized before how precious life is.
Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind; indeed, the wisest of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at others universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion.
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.