Joanna Brooks quotes
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“Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.”
-- Joanna BrooksSource : Joanna Brooks (2012). “The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith”, p.221, Simon and Schuster
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“What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?”
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“I am not the same kind of Mormon girl I was when I was seven, eight, or eighteen years old. I am not an orthodox Mormon woman like my mother. I am an unorthodox Mormon woman with a fierce and hungry faith. ”
-- Joanna BrooksSource : Joanna Brooks (2012). “The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith”, p.160, Simon and Schuster
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“How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the great Mormon plan of salvation, a smiling exemplar of our sparkling difference. But instead I found myself a headstrong Mormon woman staking out her spiritual survival at a difficult point in Mormon history.”
-- Joanna BrooksSource : Joanna Brooks (2012). “The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith”, p.149, Simon and Schuster
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“Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.”
Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”
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Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.
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“The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else.”
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Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “Now I Know”, p.34, Random House
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