Quotes
Authors
Julie B. Beck
"We are also told that this Spirit will enlighten our minds, fill our souls with joy, and help us know all things we should do.Promised personal revelation comes when we ask for it, prepare for it, and go forward in faith, trusting that it will be poured out upon us." --
Source : "And upon the Handmaids in Those Days Will I Pour Out My Spirit". Julie B. Beck's speech at the General conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April, 2010.
Julie B. Beck
#Joy Quotes
#Soul Quotes
#Mind Quotes
“As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.”
“Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.†A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world you’d better try to understand it. That doesn’t mean listening to a talk or reading a book, though that’s helpful sometimes. You learn from participating. You learn from others. You learn from the people you’re trying to organize. We all have to gain the understanding and the experience to formulate and implement ideas.”
“Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.”
Source : Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
“If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.”
“I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.”
“There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige”
“We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.”
Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.46, Da Capo Press
“If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not turning into Brunswick. We will remain SRU, but we will be owned by the Brunswick Group. It's quite different.”
