James E. Talmage Quotes

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• Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.
• No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage…
• Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was…
• Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness...
• The Lord's hand in in our lives; if we will but feel for it, in the darkness, we can grasp it and be lifted thereby.
• The man who cannot listen to an argument which opposes his views either has a weak position or is a weak defender of it. No…
• Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.
• Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.
• No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of…
• We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an individual…
• Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to…
• We have been told . . . that this life is a necessary part in the course of progression designed by our Father. We have…
• No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.
• Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.
• Physical exercise is indispensable to the development of body, and quite as certainly is spiritual activity requisite to the healthful and normal development of the…
• No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met…
• Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.
• Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to…
• The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.

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