“Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar that through which we are now passing. He became God - an exalted being - through obedience to the same eternal Gospel truths that we are given opportunity today to obey.” MenTodaySchoolEarthFatherOpportunityGivenTaughtEternalPassingPassingsMortalsObedienceProphetSublimeExaltedEarth LifeGiven Opportunity Author:Milton R. Hunter
“in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.” StatesAgeGivenUnitedUnited StatesYouthEternalIgnoredCultEternal Youth Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir
“Hail the day that sees Him rise, Ravished from our wistful eyes! Christ, awhile to mortals given, Re-ascends His native heaven. There the glorious triumph waits, Lift your heads, eternal gates! Wide unfold the radiant scene, Take the King of glory in!” EyeGivenHeavenWaitingChristKingsSceneEternalGloryWideMortalsTriumphLiftsGloriousNativeGatesRadiantHail Author:Charles Wesley
“None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him,. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election.” BelieveRunningFatherGivenChristCallingEternalElectionSheepParallels Book:A Sure Guide to Heaven Source: A Sure Guide to Heaven
“Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.” GivenChangeBehindsEternalProofImmortality Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.” MayLittlesIdeasDoneSeemsTodayScienceReligionGivenBehindsProgressCenturyEventsWillingHolyMountainEternalEssenceFundamentalsDareTheologyAbandonPopeTennessee Book:Minority Report Source: Minority Report
“O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?” SelfGivenSeaEternalAbyssDeep Sea Author:St. Catherine of Siena