Dean L. Larsen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to stand up and be counted. We must be willing to act in accordance with what we believe under all circumstances. It is of little value for us to believe one way if we behave contrary to that belief in our private actions or in our public performance.
-- Dean L. Larsen

#Believe #Littles #Way
It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to stand up and be counted. When we have the courage and faith to live up to the best we know, we fulfill the purpose for which we came to this earth, and we provide an incentive for others to do the same.
-- Dean L. Larsen

#Believe #Purpose #Earth
As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide security and growth and progress with no risk . . . even within the church. As freedom for unrestricted development is enhanced, the possibilities for failure are also increased. The risk factor is great.
-- Dean L. Larsen

#Opportunity #Risk #Growth
By our very endowment as children of an Eternal Father we have had implanted within our souls the urgency to be free. It is natural for us to want to be accountable for our own fates because there is a whispering within us confirming that this accountability is absolutely essential to the attainment of our eternal destiny.
-- Dean L. Larsen

#Children #Father #Fate
There is something essential about joining together with other believers to worship, to sing, to pray, to learn of God's will for us, and to acknowledge his goodness to us. He has commanded that this should be so.
-- Dean L. Larsen

#Learning #Together #Essentials
Those who insist that a Church program exist for every contingency and need are as much in error as their counterparts who demand that government intervene in every aspect of our lives. In both instances the ideal balance is destroyed with a resultant detriment to human progress.
-- Dean L. Larsen

#Errors #Government #Balance
Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.
-- Dean L. Larsen

#Practice #Giving #Desire

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,
Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair
Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didnâ€™t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But Iâ€™d seen it once -Woods
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Dean L. Larsen famous quotes

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