"Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right."

-- Thomas S. Monson

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“Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.”
“Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.”
“Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.”
“We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
“On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.”
“God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.”
“No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening.”
“Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.”

Source : Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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