Marlin K. Jensen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!'
-- Marlin K. Jensen

#Prayer #Home #Sunday
Like so much of what is worthwhile in life, our needs for friendship are often best met in the home. If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family. I think one of lifeâ€™s most satisfying accomplishments for my wife and me is to have lived long enough to see our children become good friends.
-- Marlin K. Jensen

#Children #Home #Acceptance
At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend.
-- Marlin K. Jensen
Nothing is more inspiring in todayâ€™s world of easily dissolved marriages than to observe a husband and wife quietly appreciating and enjoying each otherâ€™s friendship year in and year out as they experience together the blessings and trials of mortality.
-- Marlin K. Jensen

#Husband #Blessing #Years
Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.
-- Marlin K. Jensen

#Men #Romance #Eternal Friendship
I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give.
-- Marlin K. Jensen

#Friendship #Thinking #Giving
If we truly want to be tools in the hands of our Heavenly Father in bringing to pass His eternal purposes, we need only to be a friend.
-- Marlin K. Jensen

#Father #Hands #Tools
Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.
-- Marlin K. Jensen

#Light #Tree #Darkness

Prayer is the link that connects us with God.
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.
What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as "the loving brother of all of us," as one who "died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.
You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.
I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?
Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

Marlin K. Jensen famous quotes

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