Approaching Zion

Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.

Who can be 'agents unto themselves' if they are in bondage to others and have to accept their terms?

Can the mere convenience that makes money such a useful device continue indefinitely to outweigh the horrendous and growing burden of evil that it imposes on the human race and ultimately brings its dependents to ruin?

The genius of stable societies is that they achieve stability without stagnation, repetition without monotony, conformity with originality, obedience with liberty.

Self-justification, that was the danger-- the exhilerating exercise of explaining why my ways are God's ways after all.