Famous quotes by Clergymans

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened, and those which do not matter"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"An angel of God never has wings"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, He will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"The secret of masonry is to keep a secret"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me. and Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

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