James E. Talmage Quotes

#1. No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state.

James E. Talmage

#2. The Lord's hand in in our lives; if we will but feel for it, in the darkness, we can grasp it and be lifted thereby.

James E. Talmage

#3. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.' - Psalms 25:14.

James E. Talmage

#4. The God I worship is the personification of love, but not that maudlin love that oftimes blinds our eyes to facts and leads us to inconsistent actions

James E. Talmage

#5. Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness ...

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#6. Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.

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#7. Probation. Jesus Christ was and is Jehovah, the God of Adam and of Noah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel, the God at whose instance the prophets of the ages have spoken, the God of all nations, and He who shall yet reign on earth as King of kings and Lord of lords.

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#8. We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and as we are assisted by others.

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#9. No one who believes that Jesus died for man can doubt the validity and efficacy of vicarious ministration.

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#10. Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.

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#11. Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.

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#12. No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.

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#13. Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

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#14. Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroyed (p. 15).

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#15. Physical exercise is indispensable to the development of body, and quite as certainly is spiritual activity requisite to the healthful and normal development of the soul.

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#16. Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

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#17. Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.

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#18. The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.

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#19. No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.

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#20. No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect ... if it be met with patience.

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