Top 23 Orson F Whitney Quotes
#1. The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is the conquest of the heart, the subjugation of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions.
Orson F. Whitney
#2. I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.
Andrew Sullivan
#3. Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
Orson F. Whitney
#4. There is nothing so important, so imperative, as the delivery of the divine message that has been entrusted to us.
Orson F. Whitney
#5. Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.
Orson F. Whitney
#6. It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
Orson F. Whitney
#7. The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
Orson F. Whitney
#8. If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Robert Kiyosaki
#9. My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.
Leona Lewis
#10. There is only one way into the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are many ways into the human heart: and the Church of Christ, ln its mission of promulgating truth and turning souls of righteousness, has legitimate use for every avenue of the heart.
Orson F. Whitney
#11. Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
Orson F. Whitney
#12. It's a sad and grotesque thing that you and your friends have become so accustomed to lies that the truth has to be prefaced because it's inherently surprising, a startling departure from the lies that comprise your lives.
Caroline Kepnes
#13. I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
Ned Beatty
#14. I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.
Keith Miller
#15. Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
Orson F. Whitney
#16. Knowledge is power, and all things are to be known in due season. But premature knowledge
knowing at the wrong time
is fatal both to progress and to happiness.
Orson F. Whitney
#17. You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
Orson F. Whitney
#18. The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.
Orson F. Whitney
#19. I know you would like to blame the world, but the fact is that life is an 'up to you' thing.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#20. Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
Orson F. Whitney
#21. The God we worship is no respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of men's rights, and a guardian of them-a fact clearly shown in the heaven-inspired Constitution of our country, and in the Gospel itself, which might be termed the Constitution of Eternity.
Orson F. Whitney
#22. Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
Orson F. Whitney
#23. Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
Orson F. Whitney
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