Quotes

One of the fondest memories of my Granddad Nelson was trading quotes regularly over email. Sadly I lost the email archive when I went on my mission, but it has continued to be an interest of mine. I hope you enjoy my collection of quotes. A bit of everything from religion to politics to leadership.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who’ve forgotten their own childhood.

Humans are not designed to be alone. It’s in our genes. We’re social beings. Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association.

That’s what parenting is, indoctrinating your children in the social patterns that you want them to live by. The intellectuals have no qualms about using the schools to indoctrinate our children in their foolishness.

Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment. Because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.

If there were not more to do than we are individually capable of doing, we wouldn’t have to make choices and we would never realize what we value most.

You don’t have to eat the entire turd to know that it’s not a crab cake

You keep thinking that death is the most terrible thing that can happen to a person, but to God, death just means you’re coming home a few moments ahead of schedule. To God, the dreadful outcome of a human life is when that person embraces sin and rejects the joy that God offers. So of all the millions who might die in a war, each individual life is tragic only if it ends in sin.

If I ever tell you about my past, it's never because I want you to feel sorry for me but so you can understand why I am who I am.

The thing with brothers is, you’re supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

God gives us the freedom to do great evil, if we choose. Then he uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what he chooses.