42 Quotes by Hugh Nibley

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?

Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.

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

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

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.

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.

Well, I have a testimony, I may be ignorant, but I am not lost.

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.

The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.