J Golden Kimball Quotes

#1. Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone's either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.

Meghan Daum

#2. I believe if I had a house in hell and a house in St. George, I'd rent out the one in St. George and live in hell. I really would.

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#3. What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can't claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble, unless you keep him under.

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#4. I had to make the most of it; I had to make the most of me. There could be no slack, anywhere, not in my time, not in my head, not across my skin. If there were any, the guilt wouldn't bear thinking about.

Chrissie Wellington

#5. A sermon should be like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep your attention.

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#6. Cut me off from the Church? They can't do that! I repent do damn fast!

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#7. Some people say a person receives a position in this church through revelation, and others say they get it through inspiration, but I say they get it through relation. If I hadn't been related to Heber C. Kimball I wouldn't have been a damn thing in this church.

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#8. We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

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#9. An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.

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#10. I've always known what I've wanted, but I used to be shy about expressing that in regards to my career. So I've become a lioness. If something's happening that I don't necessarily feel comfortable about, I will speak my mind. Or if I want to do something, I go for it.

Tia Mowry

#11. No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

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#12. I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.

Jon Anderson

#13. It needs brains to be a real fool.

George MacDonald

#14. Well, I've almost got the problem licked. I'm eighty now, and in a few more years, I think I'll have it completely under control. (referring to his love of coffee)

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#15. I guess there's nothing I don't like about Merlin, in this presentation. I love everything, even the things I find despicable and abhorrent in Merlin. They're actually a joy to ride on the tailcoats of.

Joseph Fiennes

#16. If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

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#17. I don't know about this here eternal marriage business. But it seems to me that if you can't live with the sons-of-bitches on earth the Lord won't force you to remain with them in heaven.

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#18. I won't go to Hell for swearing because I repent too damn fast!

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#19. Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was because of its gas, because of its size, because of its struggle against terrorism that sometimes turned bloody.

Elliott Abrams

#20. Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.

R.L. LaFevers

#21. I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.

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#22. I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.

Bonnie Raitt

#23. We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

Eugene Cernan

#24. I may not always walk the straight and narrow, but I sure in hell try to cross it as often as I can.

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#25. Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

Stanley Hauerwas

#26. With my heart thumping, I froze up. I didn't dance. I was born with two left feet and they only worked together in the saddle. "Come on," Casey urged and grabbed my hand. "I wore my steel-toe boots. You can stand on my feet for all I care.

Brittney Joy