Stripling Warriors Quotes & Sayings

Home can be the Pennsylvania Turnpike
Indiana's early morning dew
High up in the hills of California
Home is just another word for you — Billy Joel

I'm glad you're seeing someone," she said. "You and Thomas had a pretty complex relationship. You've spent an enormous amount of emotional energy on Thomas. Your whole life. Now, you're going to have to take all of that energy and . . . reinvest it, I guess. It's bound to be a complicated process. — Wally Lamb

Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers. — Shannon L. Alder

As individuals, we also are apt to use the canon as a cannon. We invoke the stripling warriors of Helaman and the iron rod of Lehi's vision to ground our own version of unflinching obedience. Or we invoke the lessons of the Liahona to support our more spontaneous and flexible approach to gospel living. In America, some Mormons find Jesus' ministry to the downtrodden and King Benjamin's words about withholding judgment but not relief from the beggar to be apt endorsement of their preferred political policies. At the other end of the spectrum, some invoke the war in heaven fought over agency and consider the Mormon ethic of self-reliance to be adequate support for a different political outlook. Or, sometimes individuals even employ the cannon against the canon, citing inconsistencies and imperfections in the record as grounds for nonbelief in the principle of inspiration, one's faith tradition, or even God. — Terryl L. Givens

Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection. — Huston Smith

Attraction is an evil. It takes you to the wonderland that doesn't exist. The exit becomes tough, then. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

No one believes in God any more, but everyone believes in Bach — Mauricio Kagel

Once she had fired the pistol," Stealth continued, "she was no longer a potential threat, but an actual one. Smith had not ordered me to deal with actual threats. — Peter Clines

I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be. — Hal Higdon

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet. — Julie Klausner

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry. — Michael Bloomberg

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. — Russell Lynes

The wren goes to't — Emily St. John Mandel

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular. — Mikhail Lermontov

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business. — Fran Kranz