Terryl L. Givens

Relationships are the core of our existence because they are the core of God's and we are in His image.

— Terryl L. Givens

A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He…

— Terryl L. Givens

The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa…

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“In the Garden story, good and evil are found on the same tree, not in separate orchards. Good and evil give meaning…

— Terryl L. Givens

“...God is not exempt from emotional pain...One the contrary, God's pain is as infinite as His love.”

— Terryl L. Givens

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible,” he said. He then made his point with…

— Terryl L. Givens

“The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness.”

— Terryl L. Givens

“the biblical scholar Richard Elliott Friedman notes that “probably the most remarkable difference of all” in disparate passages “is their different ways…

— Terryl L. Givens

“If Joseph initially thought only Mormons had access to truth or goodness, he was abruptly corrected of his misperception a year into…

— Terryl L. Givens

“His desires are set upon the whole human family, not upon a select few. He is not predisposed to just the fast…

— Terryl L. Givens

What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.

— Terryl L. Givens

“In the vision of Enoch, we find ourselves drawn to a God who prevents all the pain He can, assumes all the…

— Terryl L. Givens

“As an inmate of a concentration camp, Corrie Ten Boom heard a commotion, and saw a short distance away a prison guard…

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“If we are co-eternal with God, then it is not God's creation of the human out of nothing that defines our essential…

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“The scriptures, said Paul to Timothy, are given for “correction” and “instruction in righteousness.”3 They are likened by the Psalmist to a…

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“The call to faith, in this light, is not some test of a coy god, waiting to see if we "get it…

— Terryl L. Givens

“The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has.”

— Terryl L. Givens

“...our minds are driven to answer questions that far transcend the bounds of our own lives.”

— Terryl L. Givens

“What we are worshipping we are becoming.” Every moment of every day our choices enact our loves, our desires, and our aspirations.…

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Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our…

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“Holiness is found in how we treat others, not in how we contemplate the cosmos.”

— Terryl L. Givens

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

— Terryl L. Givens

“We humans have a lamentable tendency to spend more time theorizing the reasons behind human suffering, than working to alleviate human suffering.”

— Terryl L. Givens

“In sum, disciples might do well to avoid the bibliolatry that characterizes scripture as unerring truth. Parley Pratt made this point himself…

— Terryl L. Givens

Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed…

— Terryl L. Givens