Top 68 Quotes About Talmage
#1. Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.
James E. Talmage
#2. Trust can be one of life's greatest rewards, but it can also be the cause for the most destruction in one's life.
John-Talmage Mathis
#3. Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.
James E. Talmage
#4. 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.
James E. Talmage
#5. 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.
James E. Talmage
#6. 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).
James E. Talmage
#7. Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.
James E. Talmage
#9. 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.
James E. Talmage
#10. The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.
James E. Talmage
#12. Self-preservation - this is your new focus.
The only obligation of today is to preserve the breath of tomorrow. Then, once footing is regained, you can begin to fulfill debt obligations.
Debt is hindsight.
John-Talmage Mathis
#13. I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#14. I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and Appolyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. Let us make it simpler and plainer for people to get into the Kingdom of God.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#15. The pain and shame felt are unknown to those with planned vacations. They know not of the tsunami that rescinded the homes, goals, and hopes of its victims - swallowed by the sea of greed.
John-Talmage Mathis
#16. Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.
James E. Talmage
#17. So I resort back to such ideology: we all have a calling. We all have an ultimate purpose. On that is laid before us by destiny or one that is positioned in the crosshairs of our long-term goals.
John-Talmage Mathis
#18. One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#19. There is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author and the cons of the casino.
John-Talmage Mathis
#20. Don't allow another human to decide your priorities. Their decisions are made without the slightest concern for how you're inconvenienced.
John-Talmage Mathis
#21. In whatever decisions you make in life, you have to run them through a series of logic tests to make sure that there aren't better alternatives.
Don't ever accept anything blindly - good or bad.
John-Talmage Mathis
#22. Listen to people; nothing is accomplished if you dismiss other viewpoints. And of most importance: be confident. Have confidence in yourself. Have confidence in your resume - in your skills and in your qualifications. Be willing to learn.
John-Talmage Mathis
#23. Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#24. No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect ... if it be met with patience.
James E. Talmage
#25. The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickest darkness.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#27. Life isn't fair. It doesn't make sense. This unfairness is felt by everyone, from the Las Vegas tunnel dweller all the way to the executive in the high-rise. To some, these "unfair" experiences become a chastening ball and chain attached for the remainder of life.
John-Talmage Mathis
#28. Mother--that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
T. DeWitt Talmage
#29. The truth is, living in any society is difficult. Those who become desperate with a fractured sense of security are much more prone to being taken advantaged of.
John-Talmage Mathis
#30. No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.
James E. Talmage
#31. I live by the belief that if you work hard and do the best you can, at the end of the day sleep comes easily for the dollar that was earned honestly. It was a lesson instilled by my parents. It was a lesson that I have always followed and found to be quite accurate.
John-Talmage Mathis
#32. Is it really necessary to reward the CEO with several million dollars? Why isn't it logical or common sense to pay the minimum-wage employee another quarter, give a quarterly fifty-dollar bonus, or even provide a two-hundred-dollar gas gift card?
John-Talmage Mathis
#34. Creativity and passion dwindle when hungry. Premiums for talent are easier to demand when desperation isn't part of the equation. If I'm established, I can demand $350 an hour. If I'm desperate, I may accept $5.
John-Talmage Mathis
#35. All decisions we've come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.
John-Talmage Mathis
#36. I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#37. Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice.
John-Talmage Mathis
#39. 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
#40. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.' - Psalms 25:14.
James E. Talmage
#41. You've looked in the mirror long enough.
See everything as if it were narrated by another.
John-Talmage Mathis
#42. 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
#43. Tools that make life simpler ... tend to make life more hectic, and more prone to disruptions.
John-Talmage Mathis
#44. I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This is why I laid the cobblestone before me for this Dream to be achieved.
John-Talmage Mathis
#45. Until a job is outsourced or streamlined through an innovation, an employee is trained to operate robotically. This is what a brand is.
John-Talmage Mathis
#46. And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice.
John-Talmage Mathis
#47. 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
#48. Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every town in America.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#49. It felt wrong for me to push Lady Luck to the side and for me to choose who ought to be 'lucky'. It didn't seem right. It wasn't fair.
John-Talmage Mathis
#50. When the noise is gone, and
the air is still ...
prepare for survival.
John-Talmage Mathis
#51. Let your strength from the past
provide proof of your abilities to ...
conquer the difficulties of the present.
John-Talmage Mathis
#53. In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#55. By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#57. No one who believes that Jesus died for man can doubt the validity and efficacy of vicarious ministration.
James E. Talmage
#58. 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.
James E. Talmage
#59. 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.
James E. Talmage
#62. Was I a fool to believe in fate or in some destined illusionary path? I don't know. But we all need something to believe in.
John-Talmage Mathis
#63. The ordeals of others ...
prepare us, and
later become the compass ...
in our time of ordeal.
John-Talmage Mathis
#64. 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.
James E. Talmage
#65. I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#66. Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness ...
James E. Talmage
#67. Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep ...
trump the need to preserve your credit score, or
purchase a new gizmo.
John-Talmage Mathis
#68. Since the beginning of time there have been people who see themselves as being above the law. To them the laws don't apply. These people often hold positions
in government and in the corporate world. Does a similar mentality exist within the casino world?
You betcha!
John-Talmage Mathis
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