Quotes That Direct My Life

"You cannot approach the gospel as you would a buffet or smorgasbord, choosing here a little and there a little. You must sit down to the whole feast and live the Lord’s loving commandments in their fullness.

You have been taught the commandments. You know what to do: pray, study the scriptures, fast, pay your tithes and offerings, attend your meetings, partake of the sacrament, magnify your callings and serve others, sustain your Church leaders, make and keep sacred covenants, share the gospel, be honest, true, chaste, benevolent, and virtuous."

"Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom."

Patrick Henry

"Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master."

Dwight D Eisenhower

"I used to say that Politics is the second oldest profession [prostitution being the oldest], but I have come to realize that it bears a gross similarity to the first."

Ronald Reagan

"Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants."

Benjamin Franklin

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."

Benjamin Franklin

Be kinder than necessary, for everyone is fighting some kind of battle.

-Unknown

Normal is just a setting on a washing machine.

Now is the time that we must choose between what is right and what is easy.

-Dumbledore (from Harry Potter)

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.

-Edmund Burke

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

-Unkown