A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.
Latter-day Saints are not asked to blindly accept everything they hear. We are encouraged to think and discover truth for ourselves. We are expected to ponder, to search, to evaluate, and thereby to come to a personal knowledge of the truth.
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. . . I have fallen victim to what T. S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
I'm the only gay person my parents know.