"One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may." ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Supplements and Quotes from the First Two weeks of Class

1-
Synoptic Gospel Relationships in Content

2-  Some information about the name of JEHOVAH being a combination of the Tetragramaton (Yahweh) and the verb to save/deliver:
http://www.hebrew-streams.org/frontstuff/jesus-yeshua.html

3--
A Noiseless Patient Spider
By Walt Whitman
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.

4- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 “If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.”― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.”

“I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus…”

Link to download and read, "The Grand Inquisitor,"  From the Brothers Karamazov:  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8578

5-  “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”

Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

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