February 5, 2013 Luke 10 John 9-10 By Nancy Baird

Audio February 5 2013 Lesson 82

Luke 10
John 9-10

Quotes

“Some vainly imagine that…gifts and blessing were obtained not by external observances, or external works, but merely through faith and repentance, through mental operations independent of physical. External works, or outward ordinances…[are] inseparably connected with inward works, with faith and repentance.  “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” (John 3:5).””
Lorenzo Snow, Teachings of Presidents of the Church, 49.

“The most striking conclusion to be drawn from the state of Germany today, from the stories of the refugees from behind the Iron Curtain, even from the present behavior of former concentration camp inmates, is precisely how hard it is permanently to destroy most people psychologically.” 
David Reisman, in 1954, quoted in The New Yorker, 2012.

“It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
Attitcus Finch, to his children, Jem and Scout, in To Kill a Mockingbird.

“It is easy, in the world, to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”  from Emerson’s essay on “Self-Reliance”

“She dressed each morning with care for the act of poetry.”
Michael Longley, about Emily Dickinson

“To understand the imagery, it must be remembered that Eastern folds are large open enclosures into which several flocks are driven at the approach of night.  There is only one door, which a single shepherd guards, while the others go home to rest.  In the morning the shepherds return, are recognized by the doorkeeper, call their flocks round them and lead them forth to pasture.”   Dummelow, Commentary, 1908, 791.  

[When sorrow comes to us] “in any case we shall have to bear the pain…”  [But can we see that possibility]  “which it puts within our reach!  In us too, through our loss, our pain, our sorrow, our particular disability, whatever it may be, the works of God might be made manifest.”   Arthur John Gossip, Interpreter’s Bible, 8, 612.

January 22, 2013 – Matthew 17-18 Mark 9 Luke 9 – By Nancy Baird

Audio – Jan 22 2013 Lesson 80

Matthew 17-18
Mark 9
Luke 9

Quotes

“I have a Red Indian friend…When we were once speaking confidentially about the white man, he said to me:  “We don’t understand the whites; they are always wanting something – always restless – always looking for something…We can’t understand them.  They have such sharp noses, such thin, cruel lips, such lines in their faces.  We think they are all crazy.”  Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, 277-78.

[Such things are] “hard only to the hard, incredible only to the incredulous.”
(Augustine, in Frederick Farrar, The Life of Christ, 318.

David O McKay 9th President

“There are few persons who see that light or even believe in the fuller life, and often after glimpsing it, they turn away to the grosser and more sordid things.”
David O. McKay, 1961.

“One can see much in the face of a man [or woman] as the years pass by.  Something happens to the features of the relativist:  a slackness, a weakness, a futility seems to stamp itself on them.  But the man who has stood unflinchingly for great principles shows an increasing firmness, a nobility and a majesty in his face as time goes by.”
Interpreter’s Bible

“And fellow sojourners on earth.  It is your privilege to purify yourselves and come up to the same glory, and see for yourselves and know for yourselves.  Ask…seek…knock.”
Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 13.

“Every …person who lives in this world wields an influence whether for good or for evil.  It is not what he says alone; it is not alone what he does.  It is what he is…Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other man.  He cannot escape for one moment from this radiation of his character…”
David O. McKay, in M. Catherine Thomas, Light in the Wilderness, 186-187.

A monk feared to leave praying in case he missed a divine manifestation, but could not ignore the hungry souls he usually feeds at that hour.  So he leaves his praying, and feeds the hungry and return to his cell, to find Christ waiting and saying:  “Hadst thou stayed I might have fled.”
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, “The Theologian’s Tale,” in Tales of a Wayside Inn.