Hugh Nibley Citas

• Los peores pecadores, según Jesús, no son las rameras y los publicanos, sino los líderes religiosos con su insistencia en la vestimenta y el aseo adecuados, su cuidadosa observancia de todas las normas, su preciosa preocupación por los símbolos de estatus, su estricta legalidad, su piadoso patriotismo... el corte de pelo se convierte en la prueba de la virtud en un mundo en el que Satanás engaña y gobierna mediante las apariencias.

  Hugh Nibley

  Leadership, Religious, Jesus

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• ¿Quién es justo? Cualquiera que se arrepiente. No importa lo malo que haya sido, si se arrepiente es un hombre justo. Hay esperanza para él. Y no importa que tan bueno haya sido toda su vida, si no se arrepiente, es un hombre malvado. La diferencia está en la dirección en la que se mire. El hombre en lo alto de la escalera que mira hacia abajo está mucho peor que el hombre en el último escalón que mira hacia arriba. La dirección en la que estamos mirando, eso es arrepentimiento; y eso es lo que determina si somos buenos o malos.

  Hugh Nibley

  Men, Differences, Righteous Man

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he'll do if he comes. He'll just quote the scriptures to you - so you know you're wasting your time waiting for what we already have. I'm quite serious about that.

  Hugh Nibley

  Angel, Visits You, Waiting

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.

  Hugh Nibley

  Achievement, Effort, Limits

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• Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

  Hugh Nibley

  Reflection, Echoes, Different

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• Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

  Hugh Nibley

  Book, Angel, Missionary

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• En el jardín no hay patriarcado ni matriarcado; ambos se supervisan mutuamente. Adán no tiene ningún poder arbitrario; Eva sólo debe obedecerle en la medida en que obedezca a su Padre, ¿y quién decide eso? Ella debe vigilarlo tanto como él a ella. Es, si se quiere, un sistema de frenos y contrapesos en el que cada parte es tan distinta e independiente en su esfera como lo son los departamentos del gobierno según la Constitución, e igual de dependientes entre sí.

  Hugh Nibley

  Father, Party, Independent

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• The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.

  Hugh Nibley

  Book, Tragedy

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• 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.

  Hugh Nibley

  Correr, Riesgo, Mayo

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

  Hugh Nibley

  Hombres, nombres, títulos

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• Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.

  Hugh Nibley

  People, Leaving, Mind

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

  Hugh Nibley

  Knowledge, Doors, Doe

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• [Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.

  Hugh Nibley

  Clever, Hypocrisy, Satan

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• Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

  Hugh Nibley

  Self, Matter, Taught

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• No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

  Hugh Nibley

  Knowledge, Heaven, Quests

  Hugh Nibley, Don E. Norton, Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (1994). “Brother Brigham challenges the Saints”, Deseret Book Co

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• God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with nature, whereas Satan's use of force for the sake of getting gain renders the earth uninhabitable. Brigham Young's views on the environment direct attention to man's responsibility to beautify the earth, to eradicate the influences of harmful substances, and to use restraint, that the earth may return to its paradisiacal glory.

  Hugh Nibley

  Responsibility, Men, Views

  Hugh Nibley, Don E. Norton, Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (1994). “Brother Brigham challenges the Saints”, Deseret Book Co

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• No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I have made -- I and the Lord with whom I have made them -- unless I choose to reveal them. If I do not, then they are secret and sacred no matter what others may say or do. Anyone who would reveal these things has not understood them, and therefore that person has not given them away. You cannot reveal what you do not know!

  Hugh Nibley

  Secret, Sacred, Matter

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• The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

  Hugh Nibley

  Law, Intellectual, Information

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• The unique value of Christianity lies in those things which would never in a million years occur to men if left to themselves.

  Hugh Nibley

  Lying, Unique, Men

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• Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.

  Hugh Nibley

  Mean, Past, Illusions Of Grandeur

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official light unto the world. Right down to the present day we have been the spectators of a foolish contest between equally vain and bigoted rivals.

  Hugh Nibley

  Jealous, Light, Issues

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• You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit

  Hugh Nibley

  Inspirational, Limits, Capacity

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• The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.

  Hugh Nibley

  Book, Encyclopedia

  Hugh W. Nibley (2014). “NIbley Commentary of the Book of Mormon Volume 1: Commentary of the Book of Mormon”, p.17, Sharman B Hummel

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• Al fin y al cabo, el trabajo no es un ajetreado ir y venir por surcos ya establecidos, aunque ésa sea la esencia de nuestra vida empresarial y académica moderna, sino la energía suprema y la curiosidad disciplinada necesarias para abrir nuevos surcos.

  Hugh Nibley

  Life, Running, Business

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• As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.

  Hugh Nibley

  Running, Knowledge, Yesterday

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