Quoty: quotes saved by 'cboyack' Quoty search results for user: cboyack http://www.quoty.org/user/cboyack War never determines who is right -- only who i...War never determines who is right -- only who is left.


Author: George Bernard Shaw, Source: Unknown
Saved by cboyack in war ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/5301It is not enough to be good. You must be good f...It is not enough to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. In this world so filled with problems, so constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference. You can become involved and speak with a strong voice for that which is right.


Author: Gordon B. Hinckley, Source: Standing For Something
Saved by cboyack in character leadership morality service good ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/5262Let’s not forget one of the most important less...Let’s not forget one of the most important lessons learned through the year’s supply program is the lesson of obedience.


Author: H. Burke Peterson, Source: Church News, April 12, 1975
Saved by cboyack in obedience foodstorage preparedness ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/5253In mercy the Lord warns and forewarns. He sees ...In mercy the Lord warns and forewarns. He sees the coming storm, knows the forces operating to produce it, and calls aloud through His prophets, advises, counsels, exhorts, even commands—that we prepare for what is about to befall and take shelter while yet there is time. But we go our several ways, feasting and making merry, consoling conscience with the easy fancy of “time enough” and in idle hope that the tempest will pass us by, or that, when it begins to gather thick and black about us we can turn back and find shelter.


Author: James E. Talmage, Source: The Parables of James E. Talmage, p. 50
Saved by cboyack in inspiration obedience preparedness prophet sloth prophecy distraction ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/5252What we need today is not more prophets. We hav...What we need today is not more prophets. We have the prophets. But what we need is more people with listening ears. This is the great need of our generation.


Author: J. Rueben Clark, Source: Conference Report, October 1948, p. 82
Saved by cboyack in obedience preparedness prophet prophecy ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/5251Do we lose faith, do we lose patience, do we lo...Do we lose faith, do we lose patience, do we lose hope, do we get weary in waiting, because the day is long and the event delayed? It is difficult to be prepared for an event so long delayed. Many have found it too difficult and they slumber without due preparation. Hundreds of thousands of us today are in this position. Confidence has been dulled and patience worn thin. It is so hard to wait and be prepared always. But we cannot allow ourselves to slumber.


Author: Spencer W. Kimball, Source: Miracle of Forgiveness
Saved by cboyack in faith preparedness hope patience tenvirgins ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/5250And so long as they were at war, their power wa...And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.


Author: Aristotle, Source: Politics
Saved by cboyack in politics war power peace empire ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/5012The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolut...The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolution against the norms of the society that fall below the standards that are set for us in the gospel of Jesus Christ. In the field of public life, it must be a continuing revolution against proposals that contradict the fundamental principles as laid down in the Constitution of the United States, which was written by men whom God raised up for this very purpose. If we remember that, we will be in the forefront of every battle against the things that are tearing down our society.


Author: Harold B. Lee, Source: October 1970 General Conference, http://search.ldslibrary.com/...
Saved by cboyack in politics constitution government principle revolution activism kingdomofgod religionandpolitics ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/5007 Can we turn such trends around? There is still...


Can we turn such trends around? There is still a wealth of wisdom in the people of this good land, even though such wisdom is often mute and in search of leadership. People can often feel in their bones the wrongness of things, long before pollsters pick up such attitudes or before such attitudes are expressed in the ballot box. But it will take leadership and articulate assertion of basic values in all places and in personal behavior to back up such assertions.



Even then, time and the tides are against us, so that courage will be a key ingredient. It will take the same kind of spunk the Spartans displayed at Thermopylae when they tenaciously held a small mountain pass against overwhelming numbers of Persians. The Persians could not dislodge the Spartans and sent emissaries forward to threaten what would happen if the Spartans did not surrender. The Spartans were told that if they did not give up, the Persians had so many archers in their army that they would darken the skies with their arrows. The Spartans said simply: “So much the better, we will fight in the shade!”


Author: Neal A. Maxwell, Source: http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourc...
Saved by cboyack in leadership courage future direction activism poll ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/4912It is no accident that the lessening, or loss, ...It is no accident that the lessening, or loss, of belief in certain absolute truths, such as the existence of God and the reality of immortality, has occurred at the same time there has been a sharp gain in the size and power of governments in many portions of the world.


Author: Neal A. Maxwell, Source: http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourc...
Saved by cboyack in truth morality moralrelativism biggovernment ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/4911We have been used to speaking of our political ...We have been used to speaking of our political system (as envisioned by the founding fathers) as one in which opinions collide constitutionally, wherein vested interests cancel each other out, or tame each other before a safe majority is formed, or, at least, in which vested interests are brought out into the light by the democratic process. Indeed, this system has served us well. Winners and losers have played out the drama almost always within constitutional constraints, as turns have been taken at the levers of power by different majorities. What was not allowed for fully, however, nor could it be, is what happened when government, instead of remaining a referee, first became a participant and then became a possibly permanent majority itself.


It remains to be seen whether or not our nation can tame big government. There is, frankly, no precedent for dismantling, even partially, a welfare state, especially in a peaceful and constitutional way. Such a Goliath will not go quietly to surgery.


Author: Neal A. Maxwell, Source: http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourc...
Saved by cboyack in constitution government welfare socialism biggovernment welfarestate ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/4910Eminent men and able men of great experience an...Eminent men and able men of great experience and wisdom are blaming the people for looking more and more to the Federal Government to meet their wants and to exercise governmental control over them, and this to the destruction of local self government, the rights of the States, and the rights of the people, all which are the basic factors of our social, economic, and constitutional life.

Might I humbly question whether the people are primarily to blame for this?

Nearly two thousand years ago, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, the Master miraculously fed 5,000 people. They immediately wished to make Him king. One who could feed them without their working for it, ought to be made their sovereign. This would solve for them the all important problem of earthly existence. Perceiving their thoughts and to avoid being dragged forth as the seeming head of a rebellion, the Master dismissed them and Himself fled their presence, going "up into a mountain apart to pray." That night He crossed over to the other side of the sea , and the multitude learning of it, took ship and also crossed over, and came to Him again. They gathered about Him, deceitfully worshipping, declaring: "Of a truth thou art the Son of God." But He discerning their thought and purpose, reproved them saying: "Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled."

He then preached the great sermon on the bread of life, and the sacred record declares: "From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him."

He was useless to them, except as the gratuitous provider of their bread and meat.

So do multitudes.

If our Congressmen would stop the march of the people to Washington for their government and their substance, they should cease distributing the loaves and fishes from the steps of the Treasury Building across the road from the White House. You Congressmen have the absolute power to stop it; have you the courage? If it is not done, you, not the people, must take on the censure.

There is one principle as old as human government, indeed as old as human relations: He who holds the purse strings, rules the house, the nation, the world.

If Congressmen wish to restore local self-government, and the rights of the States and of the people, let them send back to the States, to the local communities, to the Churches, and to the children of indigent parents, where it belongs, the duty of caring for their own sick and decrepit and aged, their own unfortunate and underprivileged. Then the march on Washington will cease and the countermarch back home will be a Marathon.

I am not forgetting that this may cost a good many Congressmen considerable inconvenience and more abuse, it may cost some of their them official lives. But they are planning and legislating for the conduct of a war which will cost hundreds of thousands of the actual lives of our best manhood; might they not make an infinitely less sacrifice of their own official lives for the common good and for our free institutions? And I tell you, our free institutions are far more threatened by our domestic usurpations than by the outcome of this war. If you Congressmen would save this nation and its free institutions, cease to appropriate the national funds to meet local wants and problems of welfare.


Author: J. Reuben Clark, Source: October 7, 1943, sourced in Prophets, Principles, and National Survival, p. 354-5
Saved by cboyack in liberty government welfare socialism congress generalwelfare properroleofgovernment federalgovernment ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/4905If anyone, regardless of his position in the Ch...If anyone, regardless of his position in the Church, were to advance a doctrine that is not substantiated by the standard Church works, meaning the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price, you may know that his statement is merely his private opinion. The only one authorized to bring forth any new doctrine is the President of the Church, who, when he does, will declare it as revelation from God, and it will be so accepted by the Council of the Twelve and sustained by the body of the Church. And if any man speak a doctrine which contradicts what is in the standard Church works, you may know by that same token that it is false and you are not bound to accept it as truth.


Author: Harold B. Lee, Source: The First Area General Conference for Germany, Austria, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, and Spain of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, held in Munich Germany, August 24–26, 1973, with Reports and Discourses, 69
Saved by cboyack in revelation scriptures doctrine ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/4864I hold in my hand the Book of Doctrine and Cove...I hold in my hand the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and also the book, The Pearl of Great Price, which books contain revelations of God. In Kirtland, the Doctrine and Covenants in its original form, as first printed, was submitted to the officers of the Church and the members of the Church to vote upon. As there have been additions made to it by the publishing of revelations which were not contained in the original edition, it has been deemed wise to submit these books with their contents to the conference, to see whether the conference will vote to accept the books and their contents as from God, and binding upon us as a people and as a Church.


Author: George Q. Cannon, Source: "Comments," Millennial Star 42/46 (15 November 1880): 724. (10 October 1880, General Conference)
Saved by cboyack in revelation scriptures doctrine ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/4863There is only one safety; there is only one cur...There is only one safety; there is only one cure; and that is to take the pure and unadulterated word of God and set that up as our standard of measurement, and measure every creed and doctrine and dogma by that yardstick. That which will not square with the declarations of Almighty God we can lay aside as unsuited for the need of man. . . .


Author: Albert E. Bowen, Source: Conference Report 4/52:66
Saved by cboyack in truth revelation inspiration scriptures doctrine prophet ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/4855