“We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.”
― If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths
― If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths
“all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.”
― Paradise
― Paradise
“Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who have made it back home.”
― The Infinite Atonement
― The Infinite Atonement
“...to understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to explain their self-story–what they meant to do, what they actually did, what they regretted, what they rejoiced in. That's the story that we never know, the story that we never can know–and yet, at the time of death, it's the only story truly worth telling.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
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