E.S. Russell Quotes

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

My Mom and I shopped all the time, she shops all the time, and I was always into fashion. I've been blessed to be in a situation where I can now buy some of the things that look good.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, “I will hasten my work in its time” (D&C 88:73).

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.

I've tried to do everything possible to prepare myself and prepare our football team to be great.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

Don't worry what others are doing. Do you!

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

I think God cares about everything he created.

The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.

If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore.

Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

Spirit and body, when joined together, become a living soul of supernal worth.

Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.

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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Self-worth and financial worth become indistinguishable.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration.

Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?