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“What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance.”

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Terryl L. Givens
Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens is a renowned professor specializing in religious studies, with a particular focus on Mormonism. Born in 1957, he has made substantial contributions to the field through his research and publications, exploring the religious and cultural impact of Mormonism in the United States. more

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“Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.”

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