Quotations

Moses 1:34: And the first of all men have I called Adam, which is many.

Matthew 5:48 (NRSV): Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

1 Corinthians 15:51–55 (NRSV): Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Matthew 5:5 (NRSV): Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Each one of us in our organizations is endowed with the germs of every faculty requisite to constitute a god or a goddess.

Acts 17:28 (NRSV): For “In him we live and move and have our being”; as even some of your own poets have said, “For we, too, are his offspring.”

Mosiah 3:19: For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

Doctrine and Covenants 103:9–10: For they were set to be a light unto the world, and to be the saviors of men; And inasmuch as they are not the saviors of men, they are as salt that has lost its savor, and is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man.