“If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.” IfsWorldWayTryingChristianHeavenThis WorldCitizensObstaclesChristian InspirationalGodly Author:Vance Havner
“The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.” IdeasEarthChristianUniverseHeavenPerfectDivinePlanetsCitizensFundamentalsNotionForgottenPeculiarRejectedNastySuccessorsTainted Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos
“What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries, administered without ceremonies or mystifications? Roughly the same thing as happens to the rainmaker when the climatologist turns up, or to the diviner from the heavens when schoolteachers get hold of elementary telescopes.” HappensTurnsHeavenPoorEffectsCitizensDrugSurgeryCeremonyHealerTelescopesGod Is Not Great Book:God is Not Great Source: God is Not Great
“I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom. It will be saved by enlightened members of this Church-among others-men and women who understand and abide the principles of the Constitution....I testify that the God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government, and He has now sent other choice spirits to help preserve it.” MenLoveGodHelpingGovernmentChristianSpiritFaithChoicesHeavenNationsUnderstandingWomenChurchReligiousFreedomLibertyPrinciplesCitizensMembersMen And WomenConstitutionFoundationLaysChristian InspirationalSavedPreservesOfficialsEnlightenedCherishHave FaithTrust In GodRighteousAbidingConfidence In GodGod Has A PlanInstruments Of GodJoseph SmithAttributes Of GodHeaven SentTestifying Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for heaven.” MindHeartHeavenSidesCitizensExpensesInstruction Author:Basil Moreau
“The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.” MenWorldFeelsBelieveIdeasWarCountryWholeI BelieveHeavenWhiteOughtCitizensAmbitionGood ThingsCurrentsWhole WorldOur CountryPatriotWhalesGreat AmericanParcelAmerican WriterMelville Author:Jorge Luis Borges