Famous Quotes & Sayings

David A. Bednar

The Lord's authorized servants repeatedly teach that one of the principal purposes of our mortal existence is to be spiritually changed and transformed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

James E. Faust

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

Deborah Sampson

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

Henry B. Eyring

We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit's direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough that the power of the Atonement has changed our hearts.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real; it brings immortality to all and opens the door to eternal life.

Meir Soloveichik

As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest.

Jay Johnson

Are there concerns? Of course. Have those concerns been allayed? Of course. This isn't about covering over what happened. This is about how we can move forward from that day, doing the work of atonement and forgiveness.

Oscar Wilde

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations.

Thomas Buxton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.

Thomas Buxton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

Richard Rhodes

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

George Gurdjieff

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

Tom Foreman

So many decisions of the Supreme Court have been made in the vacuum as to when life begins ... and it belies the scientific facts, the medical facts, that are out there today,

John Walsh

Men are simple minded. The fact that women can't understand them, begins to show just how complex they are...

Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Della Reese

One of the things I learned from Mahalia Jackson was how to communicate with people through song, ... The communication begins inside of you, then it is brought out to the people.

Mike Janko

Life insurance is an important method of estate transfer to at least consider because death benefits can pass to your heirs essentially free of taxes.

James Soong

Maintaining the status quo would most benefit the people of Taiwan. The PFP would by no means support independence for Taiwan.

Robert Mueller

Maintaining a code of silence will not benefit you or your company in the long run. Our safely lies not only in protecting our own interest, but our critical infrastructure as a whole.

Skip Musgraves

Make sure your employees understand what a wonderful, rich benefit it is.

Wendy Wright

Making the morning-after pill over the counter would only benefit those that profit from its increased sale, but the real price will be paid by women and girls who would suffer the health consequences.

John Barrett

Let's give them the benefit of the doubt right now. The time has come to tell them to stop using this (zoning freeze) as an excuse. It's just a matter of time before the redevelopment board takes steps and requires them to make improvements to the property,

Cecilia Munoz

Let's take a deep breath here. I guess what's frustrating is that Senator Kerry was just at our conference making terrific proposals that would benefit the immigrant community.

Dana Rohrabacher

Let's quit giving these fellows the benefit of the doubt. It's costing us so much money.

Jack Mahoney

Let the parade go on, ... It's a huge benefit to the city.

Tasha Smith

No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that.

Charles R. Swindoll

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

Democritus

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Elbert Hubbard

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

Elizabeth Bowen

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

Deepak Chopra

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

Abdul Qadeer Khan

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

David Small

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

Italo Calvino

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

George Santayana

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Peerless Price

Life is funny. It all has come full circle.

William Shakespeare

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Guillermo Coria

Luckily by the end of the match I was able to recover my full speed.

Martin Winterkorn

Last year, we set a sales record. This year we are also going to go full throttle.

Tessa Jowell

Serving a full term doesn't mean leaving office after a year or two.

Richard Holbrooke

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

Ayad Allawi

leave the holy sites quickly, lay down their weapons and return to the rule of order and law.

James Stephens

To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.

Terry Gilliam

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

Charles Spurgeon

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

Alan Bennett

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

Randy Teeney

When we got it in sight of the boat, HOLY SMOKES! It's a big halibut.

L. Lionel Kendrick

We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.

Kevin Armstrong

He loved God, and he loved the community, and he couldn't leave one for the other. He saw that neighborhood as holy ground. For him, that meant staying in it and cultivating its talents.

Matt Cookson

He'll throw holy water out onto the vineyard.

Sophia Amoruso

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

Brittany Snow

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'

Cass Canfield

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Jan Egeland

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

Austan Goolsbee

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

Debbie Reynolds

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

Donald Miller

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

Joseph Roth

We are still receiving applications every day. It's wonderful. We are interviewing still.

Anselm of Canterbury

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

J. I. Packer

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

J. C. Ryle

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

Publilius Syrus

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

Publilius Syrus

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

Martin Luther

To do so no more is the truest repentance.