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“Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.”

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American attorney born on October 24, 1883, and died on December 2, 1975. Hugh B. Brown is renowned for his outstanding contributions to the legal field. more

“I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as the 'Will Rogers' of the Church, and told the congregation that he was a great humorist. When he got up he said, 'You know, I think the Lord himself likes a joke. If he didn't, he wouldn't have made some of you folks!”

Ifs Thinking Knows Made Said Remember Church Lord Jokes Folks Likes Golden Stakes Roger Congregation Humorists

Author:Hugh B. Brown

“There never was another like you in this world. God throws the mold away every time he makes a man [or woman]... I think He made you what you are in order that you might do some particular thing better than anyone else in the world could do it.”

Thinking Men World Made Might Order This World Particular Like You Mold

Author:Hugh B. Brown

“Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, “From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth – O God of truth, deliver us.”

Thinking Needs Said Form Three Prayer Half Virtue Fields Arrogance Cowardice Laziness Modesty They Said Shrinks Zest Half Truth

Author:Hugh B. Brown

“More thinking is required, and we should all exercise our God-given right to think and be unafraid to express our opinions, with proper respect for those to whom we talk and proper acknowledgment of our own shortcomings. We must preserve freedom of the mind in the church and resist all efforts to suppress it. The church is not so much concerned with whether the thoughts of its members are orthodox or heterodox as it is that they shall have thoughts.”

Thinking Should Mind Given Church Effort Opinion Exercise Members Concerned Preserves Orthodox Shortcomings Unafraid Acknowledgment Lds

Author:Hugh B. Brown

“Look, little currant bush, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be. I didn’t intend you to be a fruit tree or a shade tree. I want you to be a currant bush, and some day, little currant bush, when you are laden with fruit, you are going to say, ‘Thank you, Mr. Gardener, for loving me enough to cut me down, for caring enough about me to hurt me. Thank you, Mr. Gardener.’”

Knows Want Looks Littles Enough Hurt Cutting Tree Fruit Caring Shade I Want You Gardener Hurt Me Saying Thank You Loving Me Fruit Trees Caring Enough

Author:Hugh B. Brown

“Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.”

Knows Should Littles Facts Answers Emotional Corners Insight Arrogance Assumption False Assumptions

Book:An Abundant Life: The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown

Source: An Abundant Life: The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown

“I should not like to contemplate an existence, especially one that is going to continue forever, if I could not enjoy that existence with those whom I love. And so we build temples in the name of the Lord.”

Ifs Should Names Enjoy Existence Lord Forever If I Could Temples Contemplating

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