Quoty: quotes saved by 'ldsphilosopher' Quoty search results for user: ldsphilosopher http://www.quoty.org/user/ldsphilosopher It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of ...It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which teh world has been dismembered and defaced.


Author: Wendell Berry, Source: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition, page 8
Saved by ldsphilosopher in salvation language naturalism mechanism ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3773The most radical influence of reductive science...The most radical influence of reductive science has been the virtually universal adoption of the idea that the world, its creatures, and all the parts of its creatures are machines--that is, that there is no difference between creature and artifice, birth and manufacture, thought and computation. Our language, wherever it is used, is now almost invariable conditioned by the assumption that fleshy bodies are machines full of mechanisms, fully compatible with the mechanisms  of medicine, industry, and commerce; and that minds are computers fully compatible with electronic technology.


Author: Wendell Berry, Source: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition, page 6
Saved by ldsphilosopher in nature creation determinism science technology reductionism naturalism machines ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3772Thy life's a miracle. Seak yet again.Thy life's a miracle. Seak yet again.


Author: Shakespear, Source: King Lear
Saved by ldsphilosopher in miracle ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3771Power founded on contract, can descend only to ...Power founded on contract, can descend only to him, who has right by that contract: power founded on begetting, he only can have that begets: and power founded on the positive grant or donation of God, he only have have by right of succession, to whom that grant directs it.


Author: John Locke, Source: Two Treatises on Government
Saved by ldsphilosopher in government authority succession monarchy ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3685If God by his positive grant and revealed decla...If God by his positive grant and revealed declaration, firsst gave rule and dominion to any man, he that will claim by that title, must have the same posistive grant of God for his succession. For if that has not directed the course of its descent and conveyance down to others, no body can succeed to this titel fo the first ruler; children have no riht of inheritance to this; and primogeniture can lay no claim to it, unless God the Author of this constitution has so ordained it. Thus we see the pretensions of Saul's family, who received his crown from teh immediate appointement of God, ended with his reign; and Davied by the same title that Saul reigned, viz. God's appointment, succeeded in his throne, to the exclusion of Jonathan, and all pretensions of paternal inheritance. And if Solomon had a right to succeed his father, it must be by some other title, then that of primogeniture.


Author: John Locke, Source: Two Treatises on Government
Saved by ldsphilosopher in government authority succession monarchy ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3684But yet, if after all, any one will needs have ...But yet, if after all, any one will needs have it so, that by this Donation of God, Adam was made sole Proprietor of the whole Earth, what will this be to his Soveraignty? And how will it appear, that Property in Land gives a Man Power over the Life of another? Or how will the Possession even of the whole Earth, give any one a Soveraign Arbitray Authority over the Persons of Men? The most specious thing to be said, is, that he that is Proprietor of the whole World, may deny all the rest of Mankind Food, and so at his pleasure starve them, if they will not acknowledge his Soveraignty, and Obey his Will. If this were true, it would be a good Argument to Prove, that there was never any such Property, that God never gave any such Private Dominion; since it is more reasonable to think, that God who bid Mankind increase and multiply, should rather himself give thema all a Right, to make use of the Food and Rayment, and other Conveniences of Life, the Materials whereof he' had so plentifully provided for theml than to make them depend upon the Will of a Man for their Subsistence, who should have Power to destroy them all when he pleased, and who being no better than other Men, was in Succession likelier by want and the depnedance of a scanty Fortune, to tye them to hard Service, than by liberal Allowance of the Conveniencies of Life, to promore teh great Design of God, Increase and Multiply: He that doubts this, let him look into the Absolute Monarchies of the World, and see what becomes of the Conveniencies of Life, and the Multitudes of People.


Author: John Locke, Source: Two Treatises on Government
Saved by ldsphilosopher in government monarchy ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3676But we know God hath not left one Man so to the...But we know God hath not left one Man so to the Mercy of another, that he may starve him is he please: God the Lord and Father of all, has given no one of his Children such a Property, in his perculiar Portion of hte things of this World, but that he has given his needy Brother a Right to the Surplusage of his Goods; so that it cannot justly be denyed him, when his pressing Wants call for it. And therefore no Man could ever have a just Power over the Life of another, by Right of property in Land or Possessions; since 'twould always be a Sin in any Man of Estate, to let his Brother perish for want of affording him Relief out of his Plenty. As Justice gives every Man a Title to the produce of his honest Industry, and the fair Acquisitions of his Ancestors descended to him; so Charity gives evert Man a Title to so much out of another's Plenty, as will keep from from extream want, where he has no means to subsist otehrwise; and a Man can no more justly make use of another's necessity, to force him to become his Vassal, by with-holding that Relief, God requires him to afford to the wants of his Brother, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his Obedience and with a Dagger at his Throat offer him Death or Slavery.


Author: John Locke, Source: Two Treatises on Government
Saved by ldsphilosopher in government slavery charity property ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3675If any one can find out that there is meant any...If any one can find out that there is meant any Monarchical Power of one Man over another, but only the Dominion of the whole Species of Mankind, over the inferios Species of Creatures, he may, for ought I know, deserve to be one of Sire Robert's Monarchs in habit, for the rarenes of the discovery. And by this time, I hope it is evident, that he that gave Dominion over every Living thing that moveth on the Earth, gave Adam no Monarchical Pwer over those of his own Species, which will yet appear more fully in the next thing I am to show.


Whatever God gave by the words of this Grant, 1 Gen. 28. it was not to Adam in particular, exclusive of all other Men: whatever Dominion he had thereby, it was not a Private Dominion, but a Dominion in common with the rest of Mankind.


Author: John Locke, Source: Two Treatises on Government
Saved by ldsphilosopher in government priesthood authority ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3673Amaleki, having no son and %E2%80%9Cknowing kin...Amaleki, having no son and %E2%80%9Cknowing king Benjamin to be a just man before the Lord%E2%80%9D (Omni 1:25), turned the small plates of Nephi over to him, bringing the separate religious record to a close because now one man was both prophet and king, recording all events on the large plates. Then, for an all-too-short period of time%E2%80%94until the end of the reign of his son, Mosiah II%E2%80%94there is a great %E2%80%9Cgolden age,%E2%80%9D a time when the ancient ideal is realized of uniting power and righteousness in a single leader to form a theocracy, that perfect but difficult and extremely rare form of government we have seen under Enoch, Abraham, Moses, and in modern times for a while under Brigham Young.


Author: Eugene England, Source: http%3A//lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp%3Fvgnextoid%3D2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD%26locale%3D0%26sourceId%3D2d681f26d596b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____%26hideNav%3D1
Saved by ldsphilosopher in government theocracy ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3652I reckon that the sufferings of this present ti...I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us.


Author: St. Paul, Source: Romans 8:18
Saved by ldsphilosopher in suffering ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3637Offenses must come, but woe to those by whom th...Offenses must come, but woe to those by whom they come; sins do cause grace to abound, but we must not make that an excuse for continuing to sin.


Author: C. S. Lewis, Source: The Problem of Pain, p. 11
Saved by ldsphilosopher in sin grace ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3636Suffering is not good in itself. What is good i...Suffering is not good in itself. What is good in any painful experience is, for the sufferer, his submission to the will of God, and, for the spectators, the compassion aroused and the acts of mercy to which it leads.


Author: C. S. Lewis, Source: The Problem of Pain, p. 110
Saved by ldsphilosopher in suffering compassion ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3635Now error and sin both have this property, that...Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.


Author: C. S. Lewis, Source: The Problem of Pain, p. 92
Saved by ldsphilosopher in evil sin error pain ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3634 We have read these passages and their associat...

We have read these passages and their associated passages for many years. We have seen what the words say and have said to ourselves, "Yes, it says that, but we must read out of it the taking of the gospel and the blessings of the temple to the Negro people, because they are denied certain things." There are statements in our literature by the early Brethren that we have interpreted to mean that the Negroes would not receive the priesthood in mortality. I have said the same things, and people write me letters and say,


"You said such and such, and how is it now that we do such and such?" All I can say is that it is time disbelieving people repented and got in line and believed in a living, modern prophet. Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or President George Q. Cannon or whoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. We spoke with a limited understanding and without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world.


We get our truth and light line upon line and precept upon precept (2 Ne. 28:30; Isa. 28:9-10; D&C 98:11-12; 128:21). We have now added a new flood of intelligence and light on this particular subject, and it erases all the darkness and all the views and all the thoughts of the past. They don't matter anymore.{1}


It doesn't make a particle of difference what anybody ever said about the Negro matter before the first day of June 1978. It is a new day and a new arrangement, and the Lord has now given the revelation that sheds light out into the world on this subject. As to any slivers of light or any particles of darkness of the past, we forget about them. We now do what meridian Israel did when the Lord said the gospel should go to the Gentiles. We forget all the statements that limited the gospel to the house of Israel, and we start going to the Gentiles.



Author: Bruce R. McConkie, Source: http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/history/blacks/mcconk...
Saved by ldsphilosopher in revelation authority ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3629Little wonder that the Prophet Joseph would inc...Little wonder that the Prophet Joseph would include in those succinct and eloquent articles of our faith, "We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof." Clearly, acting with divine authority requires more than mere social contract. It cannot be generated by theological training or a commission from the congregation. No, in the authorized work of God there has to be power greater than that already possessed by the people in the pews or in the streets or in the seminaries—a fact that many honest religious seekers had known and openly acknowledged for generations leading up to the Restoration.


Author: Jeffrey R. Holland, Source: Our Most Distinguishing Feature, April 2005
Saved by ldsphilosopher in priesthood authority ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3627