Delbert L. Stapley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.
-- Delbert L. Stapley

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Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection.
-- Delbert L. Stapley

#Strength #Father #Blessing
In all humility and sincerity we must admit a power higher than ourselves from whom is derived a positive moral code that will give our lives significance and purpose. We also must remember once and for all that honesty, respect, and honor as such are not for sale on the market block. They are ingredients that you and I and all people should put into our daily lives.
-- Delbert L. Stapley

#Honesty #Block #Humility
The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as his relationship to God who is his spiritual father. If man will recognize his divine origin, he will then realize his Heavenly Father will not leave him alone to grope in darkness of mind and spirit, but will make available a power to influence him in right paths and into standards of good behavior. The Holy Ghost is that power.
-- Delbert L. Stapley

#Spiritual #Father #Men
The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example.
-- Delbert L. Stapley

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Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations.
-- Delbert L. Stapley

#Light #Shining #May
Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us.
-- Delbert L. Stapley

#Love #Blessed #Burden
We must acquire the faith to accept the fact that all knowledge is from God and known to God. Knowledge is released to man on earth according to God's plan for him. Free or liberal thinking does not change truth, the revealed knowledge which comes from God.
-- Delbert L. Stapley

#Truth #Men #Thinking
When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.
-- Delbert L. Stapley

#Children #Communication #Parent

Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.
The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.
Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing
I'm a character actor.
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.
So far, sheâ€™d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris
Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

Delbert L. Stapley famous quotes

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