"The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe."

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Source : Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”, p.21

Orson Pratt

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“Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn a new language. The discipline to do this is learned in your early years. Establish now the daily practice of reading the scriptures ten to fifteen minutes each day. If you do so, by the time you reach the mission field, you will have read all four of the standard works. I urge you to read particularly the Book of Mormon so that you can testify of its truthfulness as the Lord has directed.”
“Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.”
“Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.”
“Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.”
“No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This is what the uniqueness of the artist is all about. The transcendent right of the artist is the right to create even though he may not always know what he is doing.”
“Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.”
“Success is achieved twice. Once in the mind and the second time in the real world.”
“The reason why it is that strong, and why HipHop is so inbred, is that there is a very structured wheel, a very definable system on how to get paid in HipHop. Busta Rhymes is someone who took that road and sure enough got paid. As long people like him are allowed to continue to do that it wont change. There is a very specific sound and a very specific attitude, and it changes every year, but as long as you stay in there and keep doing it, and keep narrowing your scope, dressing the rigt ways etc. you get paid.”

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