#timon

You know your testimony is strong when your roots are so deep that other people’s storms will never knock you over. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#faith #negativity #never-give-up #strong-women #testimony

There is but one path of safety to the Latter-day Saints, and that is the path of duty. It is not testimony, it is not marvelous manifestations, it is not knowing that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true, . . . it is not actually knowing that the Savior is the Redeemer, and that Joseph Smith was His prophet, that will save you and me, but it is the keeping of the commandments of God, the living the life of a Latter-day Saint. [Heber J. Grant, Improvement Era, November 1936, p. 659] Quoted in “Waiting Upon the Lord” By Henry B. Eyring, BYU Speeches, 30 Sept 1990 ↗

— Heber J. Grant

#gospel #life #testimony #life

Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#beliefs #expectations #judgement #religion #selfrighteousness

To think because you have been “saved” that you are now sane is insanity. God doesn’t fix the mind. He only gives you opportunities to have moments of clarity. It is your job to climb the mountain and see above the clouds for yourself, not to believe the congregation's interpretation of the view. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#brainwashed #personal-truth #religion #seeking-god #testimony

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#silence #testimony #abuse

Have you ever read a wonderful quote that you want to post on your twitter/facebook/blog/whatever but you feel like it may come off as “not Christian enough” or just a little theologically lacking? ↗

— Nick Rynerson

#social-networking #testimony #twitter

A friend asked the author,"If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know? ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#testimony #faith

Will you still love me when I'm a monster? ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#maddigans #maddigans-fantasia #margaret-mahy #timon #timon-and-eden

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. ↗

— Marie Dressler

#better #established #fact #good #testimonies

But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#answers #appreciated #best #commission #could