Henry B. Eyring Quotes

I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people.

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

I'm related to people I don't relate to.

I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.

If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.

We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned to their church, and some still do. Counterintuitively, people are now turning into themselves to find their roots. The way you do that is through your family tree. "Where did I come from?" There is an urge to preserve the names of the people who produced you.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

If your kids are realizing that they descend from something, that's really great. The more you're able to inculcate that the greater amount of pride they're gonna have. That's incredible.

I wanted to talk about how grace in and of itself changes us. It changes the way we treat other people, the way we view our lives, the way we treat our purpose and our eternal identity.

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.

I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.

When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.

Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?