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“We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.”

Law Desire Perfect Liberty Balance Faults Saint Neighbor Denied Strict Strict Laws

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculate or encourage polygamy... And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.”

Law Church Teaching Land Advice Saint Latter Associates Forbidden Refrain Polygamy Latter Days Latter Day Saints Contracting

Book:In the Whirlpool: The Pre-manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885-1890

Source: In the Whirlpool: The Pre-manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885-1890

“I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God's word, or God's world.”

Ifs World Dream Reality Law Agree Saint Invisible Communion Evident

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.”

Should Mind Has Beens Law White Military Divine Creating Should Have Police Saint Disorder Divine Love Should Have Been Orthodoxy Nuisance Intoxicated Military Police

Book:Collected stories and other writings

Source: Collected stories and other writings