“With all the strength of my soul, I testify that God lives, that His Beloved Son is the firstfruits of the Resurrection, that the gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light that makes of every hopeless dawn a joyful morning.” SoulLightJesusChristMorningSonJesus ChristMy SoulDawnBelovedHopelessResurrectionJoyfulGod LifeBeloved Son Author:Thomas S. Monson
“I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of quicksand I plead with you to avoid. You are of a noble birthright. Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal.” DreamTodayFatherGoalBrokenEternalNobleKingdomsOur FatherCrushedEternal LifeCovenantShatteredBirthrightQuicksandQuagmireShattered Dreams Author:Thomas S. Monson
“I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.” IfsKnowsNeedsFacesFeltKnownClassBoysWorstCallingFemaleProfessionInstanceSpokesOver ItOccupationApologizingShamefulDaytimeCushionsLower ClassHumdrum Author:Quentin Crisp
“The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.” KnowsWorldDoneSeemsIgnoble Author:Quentin Crisp
“Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.” ConsciousnessStylePersonalityConsistentIdiom Author:Quentin Crisp
“Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.” SeemsTearsExpressionHatred Author:Quentin Crisp
“My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.” FirstsWantedCausesProcessGriefEssenceWeightGuiltMiseryBurdenMelancholyRejectedHomosexualityOutlookDespisedDeviate Author:Quentin Crisp
“What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.” IfsUseWantedSexPersonalityWeaponsAllure Author:Quentin Crisp