1 Nephi 23 Quotes

#1. To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

#2. There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Victor Hugo

#3. Where there is Isness, there God is. Creation is the giving of isness from God. And that is why God becomes where any creature expresses God.

Meister Eckhart

#4. In a contest of wills between John and his mother, he did not think John would prevail, indeed he hoped he would not. But he did not care to be a witness to their confrontation; he suspected Eleanor's methods would be neither maternal nor merciful.

Sharon Kay Penman

#5. I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.

Shea Hembrey

#6. Some truths can only be seen in the dark.

Marty Rubin

#7. What made Nelson Mandela great, was precisely what made him human. We saw in him, what we seek in ourselves.

Jacob Zuma

#8. You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

Bill Konigsberg

#9. You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

Josemaria Escriva

#10. Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an ass.

Stephen Hawking

#11. I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.

John Wooden

#12. No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

George Sand