“My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.” HumansCultureFatherMy OwnHuman BeingsSonHusbandDegreesMalesNotionSubversiveFather Husband Author:Mark Leyner
“The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man. Brother Kimball quoted a saying of Joseph the Prophet, that he would not worship a God who had not a Father; and I do not know that he would if be had not a mother; the one would be as absurd as the other. If he had a Father, he was made in his likeness. And if he is our Father we are made after his image and likeness.” IfsKnowsMenMadeIdeasWould BeMotherFatherLordBrotherWorshipNotionAbsurdProphetMistakenOur Father Book:The Essential Brigham Young Source: The Essential Brigham Young
“I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an atheist, I still believe strongly in the power of free will (despite the mysticism in my prose). I don't believe in the notion of a pre-ordained destiny, and I think because of the sudden death of my father at sixteen I learnt then that it is essential to live life to the fullest as it could be snatched away at any second.” ThinkingBelieveStillsPhilosophyFatherDestinyEssentialsNotionDon't BelieveAtheistDrivenDespiteLive LifeProseMysticismFree WillFierceEighteenSixteenI Still BelieveLive Life To The FullestSudden Death Author:Tobsha Learner
“The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.” PeopleBelieveSoulReasonSeemsFatherNaturalCommonUniversalNotionCreditSeedsCustomsOur FatherHinges Book:Essays Source: Essays