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Brian Johnston wrote:
“You can claim anything as a fact on the internet with authority, so long as you attribute it to someone famous.”
-George Washington
I love it!! On this note….
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“Mormons will believe anything they are told, provided a general authority was quoted as saying it”-Russell M. Bednar
Actually, the one I like is this one:
Quote:“I don’t object to education, as long as it doesn’t interfere with your thinking” — Lorne Greene, in his role as Ben Cartwright on the TV show Bonanza
I have been impressed with Mackay11’s quotes of the day and thought of this old thread. I thought I’d bump it up to give these quotes a re-airing. 
Roy wrote:I have been impressed with Mackay11’s quotes of the day and thought of this old thread. I thought I’d bump it up to give these quotes a re-airing.
Great, thanks for ‘bumping’ it. I might harvest a few of these and create a summary of relevant ones. with link back to this thread.
All quotes are welcome on the other thread, but I’m particularly in the process of looking for either scriptural or GA quotes as they are the ones that would carry most weight in a Sunday School class or conversation with a TBM.
I’m not trying to compile quotes to ‘confound’ LDS, but to gently bring in a different perspective from a source they can trust.
I love some of the non-LDS quotes too, but for different, more introspective reasons.
Here’s a few of my favorites: Quote:Joseph Smith
“I want the liberty of thinking and believing as I please. It feels so good not to be trammeled. It does not prove that a man is not a good man because he errs in doctrine.” (Discourse to Saints, April 1843; DHC 5:340)
Quote:Hugh B. Brown’s statement
“Preserve, then, the freedom of your mind in education and in religion, and be unafraid to express your thoughts and to insist upon your right to examine every proposition. We are not so much concerned with whether your thoughts are orthodox or heterodox as we are that you shall have thoughts.”
Quote:Gordon B. Hinckley
This restored gospel brings not only spiritual strength, but also intellectual curiosity and growth. Truth is truth. There is no clearly defined line of demarcation between the spiritual and the intellectual when the intellectual is cultivated and pursued in balance with the pursuit of spiritual knowledge and strength.
To the very end of Joseph’s life, he opposed creeds:
Quote:Joseph Smith, on January 1, 1843, wrote:The prominent points of difference in sentiment between the Latter Day Saints & sectarian viz: the latter are all circumscribed by some peculiar creed which deprives its members of the right of believing anything not contained in it; whereas the Latter Day Saints have no creed, but are ready to believe all true principles existing, as they are made manifest from time to time.
History of the Church, V5 p215
dash1730 wrote:Here’s a few of my favorites:
Joseph Smith
“I want the liberty of thinking and believing as I please. It feels so good not to be trammeled. It does not prove that a man is not a good man because he errs in doctrine.” (Discourse to Saints, April 1843; DHC 5:340)
Hugh B. Brown’s statement
“Preserve, then, the freedom of your mind in education and in religion, and be unafraid to express your thoughts and to insist upon your right to examine every proposition. We are not so much concerned with whether your thoughts are orthodox or heterodox as we are that you shall have thoughts.”
Gordon B. Hinckley
This restored gospel brings not only spiritual strength, but also intellectual curiosity and growth. Truth is truth. There is no clearly defined line of demarcation between the spiritual and the intellectual when the intellectual is cultivated and pursued in balance with the pursuit of spiritual knowledge and strength.
To the very end of Joseph’s life, he opposed creeds:
Joseph Smith, on January 1, 1843, wrote:The prominent points of difference in sentiment between the Latter Day Saints & sectarian viz: the latter are all circumscribed by some peculiar creed which deprives its members of the right of believing anything not contained in it; whereas the Latter Day Saints have no creed, but are reay to believe all true principles existing, as they are made manifest from time to time.
History of the Church, V5 p215
psycic. I posted a post independently elsewhere on this site with the exact same sentiment.Quote:“I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self security. Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not. “
( Discourses of Brigham Young, sel. John A. Widtsoe [1954], 135.)
Harvard University’s Hollis professor of divinity, Karen L.King, (incidentally Karen is the only woman to ever hold the Hollis post in its 290 year history) speaking about her hopes for “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.” (a fragment of a coptic manuscript where Jesus is qouted as saying, “My wife…She will be able to be my disciple…I dwell with her.” Reporter: What are you after exactly? Is it to make Christianity a bigger tent? Is it to make clergy more tolerant of difference?
Karen L. King wrote:I’m less interested in proselytizing or a bigger tent for its own sake then in issues of human flourishing. It’s more the, How do we get along? What does it mean for the living now? What history can do is show that people have to take responsibility for what they activate out of their tradition. It’s not just a given thing one slavishly follows. You have to be accountable.
Michael J. Fox says that he loves this saying and finds it particularly applicable to the things he can’t know or control about his future with Parkinson’s. Quote:My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations
Also in comparing his struggle with the challenges that others face he said, “We all get our own bag of hammers.”
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