"...Neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him"

-- 2 Samuel 14:14
(page 445 in the LDS KJV)

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[445 is the telephone prefix in Fountain Green Utah where I resided at the time I was excommunicated from the Mormon church for "apostasy"]

   2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
   3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

-- Zechariah 12

    "The nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end."

-- Aldous Huxley

    "Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people."

-- Deut. 9:6

        "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."

-- Thomas Edison

        "I hope you have developed some real intellectual curiosity. If you have it you will never, never be bored . . . . To the intellectually curious the world will be full of magic and full of wonder."

-- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
BYU Spring commencement, Apr. 20, 2000

[...and possibly excommunication?]

        "Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn."

-- Benjamin Franklin
contributed by Allan Flint

"All is well."

-- Spencer W. Kimball
last words he spoke in General
Conference, after end of session, TV
still on, microphone still on, spoken as
he passed by the microphone

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."

-- anon. quote at Brick Oven restaurant in Provo, UT

"Here begins a short rebuke to the wicked of the time (v. 9-12)."

-- LDS Bible footnote for Isaiah 56:9-1, which is probably the hardest-hitting prophecy of any in the scriptures. Compare D&C 101, parable of the vineyard, and how the husbandmen neglected to build a watchtower, even as the enemy approached and then trampled down the vineyard; yet the slothful husbandmen in charge had said, "it is a time of peace."  (What NWO? What's so bad about the NWO?)

"There's always free cheese in a mousetrap!"

--Author Unknown
(contributed by Susan Carter)

"Too often the polygamist can hop skip and jump all over the place to avoid facing personal and relationship issues."

-- Susan Carter (reference)

"I would rather pass through all the misery and sorrow, the troubles and trials of the Saints, than to have the religion of Christ become popular with the world. It would in such case go as the ancient Church went. When I see this people grow and spread and prosper, I feel that there is more danger than when they are in poverty. Being driven from city to city or into the mountains is nothing compared to the danger of our becoming rich and being hailed by outsiders as a first-class community..."

-- Brigham Young
(Journal of Discourses, Vol.10, p.297, May 15, 1864)

"When Judah begins to see really Torah observant Gentiles who have joined the House of Israel, the obstacle o their accepting Messiah will be removed."

-- Dean Mansfield (8/15/00)

"In Stage III progressive controlled disarmament . . . would proceed to a point where no state would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force."

-- Freedom From War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World; Department of State Publication 7277

"He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the person of a distant people [Africans] who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.  This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain.  Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce."

-- Thomas Jefferson,
    original draft of Declaration of Independence
    (Writings, edited by Merrill D. Peterson and
    published by Literary Classics of the United
    States, Inc., New York, 1984.)

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

-- Gandhi

"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."

-- U.S. Supreme Court in American Communications
Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442.

I bless you with increased understanding of the Book of Mormon.  I promise you that from this moment forward, if we will daily sup from its pages and abide by its precepts, God will pour out upon each child of Zion and the Church a blessing hitherto unknown -- and we will plead to the Lord that He will begin to lift the condemnation -- the scourge and judgment.  Of this I bear solemn witness.

-- President Ezra Taft Benson
(Foreword, "A Witness and a Warning," Deseret Book, 1988)

"We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present."

-- Marianne Williamson
(A Return to Love, Harper Collins)

"The truth will make you free, but first it will make you damn mad."

--M. Scott Peck

"What you sincerely in your heart think of Christ will largely determine what your acts will be."

-- David O. McKay

"Every child in America entering school at the age of 5 is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity.  It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well -- by creating the international child of the future."

-- Harvard psychiatry professor, Chester Pierce
Childhood International Seminar, 1973, Denver.

"And thou, O Daniel, hide the things, and seal the book till the time of the end, many do go to and fro, and knowledge is multiplied."

-- Daniel 12:4

"6. President Hinckley is the only man upon the earth who can authorize civil disobedience."

-- John W. Redelfs
charter for "Moroni" discussion list

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"Seems good enough to me."

-- President Gordon B. Hinckley, when asked what he thought about the New World Order.
Payson, Utah priesthood leadership meeting Q/A session, 1992.
p.s. his touted Media friend is Larry King

"...The Lord is at the helm, the Church is true, and ALL IS WELL"

-- Spencer W. Kimball
Prophet/President of the LDS Church
(The Ensign; May, 1982; p. 76)

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"And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: ALL IS WELL in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, ALL IS WELL -- and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell."

-- 2 Nephi 28:21 (also Helaman 13:28)

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

-- Communist Tyrant Josef Stalin

"…Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through the process of law the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers. These truths are well known among our principle men who are now engaged in forcing an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance. It is thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished."

--The United States Banker’s Association Magazine, Aug 1924

And they had power given unto them, insomuch that they could not be confined in dungeons; neither was it possible that any man could slay them; nevertheless they did not exercise their power until they were bound in bands and cast into prison. Now, this was done that the Lord might show forth his power in them.

-- Alma 8:31

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of man and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?

-- George Washington,
President of the United States
Farewell Address to the United States in 1796

"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"