E.S. Russell Quotes

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

I go to yoga every day. I meditate every morning.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free.

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world.

The need for some venture of faith still remains one must stake one's life upon something.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.

I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose.

Obedience brings success exact obedience brings miracles.

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.

I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl?

When I stopped playing hockey and started acting, the last person I was going to ask for help was my dad. He's the king of being like, 'I don't know. It's good work if you can get it. Good luck.'