Torn Quotes - Page 23

• For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still, it stands.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Religious, Book, Years

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• A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

  Nelson Mandela

  Distance, Winning, People

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 04, 2013

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• There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, America

  Barack Obama's Speech in Immigration Town Hall in Miami, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 25, 2015.

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• In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Inspiring, Heart, Divorce

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• It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Seductive, Challenges

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