March 5, 2013 Matthew 21-23 Mark 11-12 Luke 19-21 John 12 by Nancy Baird

 Audio March 5, 2013 Lesson 86

Matthew 21-23
Mark 11-12
Luke 19-21
John 12

Quotes

“All the members of the Sacerdotal order that could be found were put to death.  [Annas] and Jesus, the son of Gamala, underwent frightful insults; their bodies were deprived of sepulture, an outrage unheard of among the Jews.  Thus perished the son of the principal author of the death of Jesus. [Caiaphas, who would have been dead by then]. This was the end of the Sadducean sect, a sect often haughty, selfish , and cruel…Profound was the impression when those aristocrats, so highly respected, were seen cast naked out of the city, given up to the dogs and the jackals.  It was a world which disappeared.”
The Life of Christ, Farrar, quoting Renan (1873), 738.

“It is difficult, if not impossible, to teach doctrine without personality.”
David O. McKay   

“Mark became Peter’s interpreter and wrote down accurately, but not in order, all that he remembered of the things said and done by the Lord.  For he had not heard the Lord or been one of his followers, but later, as I said, a follower of Peter…”
Eusibius, quoting from Papias (A.D.120), 129.

“Take all away from me,
but give me ecstasy.”
Letters of Emily Dickinson, 426.

The French are a frugal people who have learned to give so that the recipient feels good in receiving.  Sidney Harris says:  “One of the loveliest examples is a note that Corot the painter sent to his friend Daumier who was nearly blind and facing eviction on his 65th birthday:  ‘Friend, I have a little house at Valmondois which I could not for the life of me think what to do with.  Suddenly I thought to give it to you.  Liking the idea I have had your ownership legally confirmed.  I had no idea of doing you a good turn.  The whole scheme was carried out to annoy your landlord.  Ever yours, Corot.’  And Daumier wrote gratefully in reply:  ‘You are the only man from whom I could take such a present and not feel humiliated.'”
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February 19, 2013 Matthew 20 Luke 14-17 by Nancy Baird

Audio February 19, 2013 Lesson 84

Matthew 20
Luke 14-17

Quotes

“A good illustration of the pride of rabbis is the conduct of Rabbi Simeon ben Shetah, who when invited to dinner by King Jannaeus (104-79 B.C.), placed himself between the king and queen, saying, ‘Exalt wisdom and she shall exalt thee, and make thee to sit among princes.'”   Dummelow, A Commentary, 757.

“Not his body alone [was healed], but the soul – whose value was so infinitely more precious, just as its diseases are so infinitely more profound…”
Farrar, The Life of Christ, 441.

“It is as if these benefits were falling into a deep silent grave.”
Farrar, The Life of Christ, 440.

(Speaking of the parable of the prodigal son, in which is illustrated) “the deepest mysteries of divine compassion — the joy that there is in heaven over one sinner that repenteth.  Where, in the entire range of all human literature, sacred or profane, can anything be found so terse, so luminous, so full of infinite tenderness?… [including] the consequences of sin, yet so merciful…”
Farrar, The Life of Christ, 325, 326).

“Many parents do not know that even children, even very small children, have a need to feel autonomous. There is thinking now that this is kind of a basic part of human nature, and it begins very early in infancy.”
Moms Who Direct Play Lose Child’s Attention, Deseret News, Feb. 11th,