"By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own."

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Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#Prayer Quotes #Answers Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“I would like to do some musicals.”
“Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.”
“Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.”
“Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.”

Source : Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.25, Princeton University Press
“The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American or European foods - ceviche, albondigas, even the mint julep - have roots in Iraqi cuisine, which was a crossroads of Persian and Arab and Turkic traditions. The oldest written recipes in the world are from Iraq!”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.”
“Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really coming by my house looking for it. And besides, the right to bear arms is not an absolute right anyway, as New York's Sullivan Law proves. We talk about ourselves as a violent society, and some of that is right and some of it is claptrap. But I think if you took away the guns, and I mean really take away the guns, not what Congress is doing now, you would see that violent society diminish considerably.”
“There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.183, Da Capo Press

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