Gannicus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

  • I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

  • President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a modern prophet, said over and over again that the Lord would never let one of his Saints who had been faithful in the payment of tithes and offerings go without the necessities of life” (Marion G. Romney, “The Blessings of an Honest Tithe,” New Era, Jan.-Feb. 1982, 45). Members who faithfully pay tithing are promised spiritual blessings as well. “I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith

  • One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

  • Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

  • God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

  • The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

  • This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

  • Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

  • I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.