Clergyman Quotes

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.
All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
An angel of God never has wings.
Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.
I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.
I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.
I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.
If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.
If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me." and "Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.
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