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If I had had this experience earlier in life, I would have been much wiser, much more compassionate. I really didn't understand what it was that made ...more

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This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognized for what i...more

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There's a patter in these Commandments of setting things apart so that their holiness will be perceived. Every day is holy, but the Sabbath is set apa...more

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When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is t...more

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I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect.

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When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is t...more

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Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that ...more

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Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

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I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

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It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

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The parents of these young soldiers would come to me and ask how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have t...more

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It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

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I believe there is dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. He is forever raising up those who are brought low...more

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How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

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. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.