Dan Reynolds Quotes

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

Christians need to embrace that there need to be believers talking about love and social issues and all other aspects of life.

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.

Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

For me, what's the old expression, 'Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,' that's really what religion is good at when it is done right. And the truth is, so is television.

I pray every day and think everybody should.

The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

As a senior in high school, I had a strong sense that God wanted me in some kind of ministry.

It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.

Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I've grown up with is tough but also very freeing.

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

You have to have people who prick the consciences of the nation.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.

Where there are breaches of human rights, you need to speak out about it, no matter where it is.

I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but for me, I gotta say something. I can't just look at injustice and keep quiet.

Don't ever silence your morality to be a part of anything.

Westboro would quote this passage from the book of Leviticus that, for them, shows that the definition of 'love thy neighbor' is to rebuke your neighbor when you see him sinning. And if you don't do that, then you hate your neighbor in your heart.

When I was hired to write and direct a movie, my Christian duty suddenly became quite clear: My primary duty as a Christian in Hollywood is to do my job well.

You can't be a spiritual adviser and not pray.

For me, faith is personal, but the implications are social - as personal and social responsibility are at the heart of the Christian message.

I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.

I think he would care if you were a good person, if indeed there is a god.

Stepping back, just being in my little Stoicism Susan bubble, if what people know you for is bringing light to an issue about bad behavior, about bad stuff going on and laws not being followed and people being treated inappropriately, why wouldn't I want that? That's a badge of honor.