"The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation. It is important that we gain a sure knowledge that our preparation to enter the holy house and that our participation in these ceremonies and covenants are some of the most significant events we will experience in our mortal lives."

-- Robert D. Hales

#Blessing Quotes #House Quotes #Preparation Quotes

“We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.”

Source : Ronald Steel (1980). “Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)”, p.4, Transaction Publishers
“I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.”
“It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.”
“Just because youâ€™re taught that somethingâ€™s right and everyone believes itâ€™s right, it donâ€™t make it right.”
“It was the first car accident I had ever been in. It shakes you up a little bit.”
“We are capitalism made flesh.”

Source : "The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age". Book by Mark Kingwell, 2000.
“The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence.”
“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?”

Source : "The Last Word". Book by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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