If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!There is an excellent post at BCC by Jamie Huston entitled “Examining Our Attitudes Towards Money.” I think I would echo everything he said. He even included some quotes from Hugh Nibley, which [...]
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Dr. Hugh Nibley’s opening remarks in his earthshaking address, “Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift,” given at the BYU commencement ceremony on August 19, 1983, would have fit even more perfectly in an Oxford setting. In refering to his statement in a commencement prayer he gave in 1960 in which he [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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I received this quote today in my inbox by Elder Christofferson, our newest apostle, in a talk he gave to the CES on November 7, 2004:
The importance of having a sense of the sacred is simply this–if one does not appreciate holy things, he will lose them. Absent a feeling of reverence, he will grow [...]
I noticed something yesterday that I thought was a good and oxymoronic example of how the adversary likes to distract us from what is important, to divert our attention onto more worldly pursuits, and tempt us to stay away, both in mind and body, from that which is holy.
This image is a scan of the [...]