Missionary Work And The Atonement Quotes

#1. The true defining situation for a person is what they do when they are alone and don't have to do anything else. What do they do? Do they do frivolous things? That's when you define what you are.

Jeff Benedict

#2. What does the Atonement have to do with missionary work? Any time we experience the blessings of the Atonement in our lives, we cannot help but have a concern for the welfare of others ... A great indicator of one's personal conversion is the desire to share the gospel with others.

Ezra Taft Benson

#3. It was heaven, but with sex and booze and God's complete permission.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

Bertrand Russell

#5. Writing begins as a solitary obsession and ends up as communication.

Marty Rubin

#6. Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

Ahmad Jamal

#7. (...) I've always thought of myself as a kind person. Not saintly but generously thoughtful (in a bitchy sort of way). (...)

Harvey Fierstein

#8. I have had friends for years who have never seen my house.

Julie Kavner

#9. News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage.

Robert Reich

#10. Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'

Jacqueline Novogratz

#11. There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

Zygmunt Bauman

#12. But I know nothing of time. I am new every day. I am born when I wake up in the morning, I grow old during the day, and I die at night when I go to sleep. It is not my fault. And I am doing so well today. I am doing so much better than I have ever done before.

Paul Auster