“Yesterday I was so clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – – “Rumi, the best-known Sufi poet”

https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/03/27/what-next-for-pakistan

“We solemnly testify that His life, which is central to all human history, neither began in Bethlehem nor concluded on Calvary. He was the Firstborn of the Father, the Only Begotten Son in the flesh, the Redeemer of the world.” – – The Living Christ, The Testimony of the Apostles, January 1, 2000

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Birmingham, 1963: Three Witnesses to the Struggle for Civil Rights | Uncommon Knowledge | Hoover Institution

“Mary Bush, Freeman Hrabowski, and Condoleezza Rice grew up and were classmates together in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, in the late 1950s and early ’60s. We reunited them for a conversation in Birmingham’s Westminster Presbyterian Church, where Rice’s father was pastor during that period. The three lifelong friends recount what life was like for Blacks in Jim Crow Alabama and the deep bonds that formed in the Black community at the time in order to support one another and to give the children a good education. They also recall the events they saw—and in some cases participated in—during the spring, summer, and fall of 1963, when Birmingham was racked with racial violence, witnessed marches and protests led by Dr. Martin Luther King, and was shocked by the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. The latter event resulted in the deaths of four little girls, whom all three knew. The show concludes with a visit to a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. erected in Kelly Ingram Park—where in 1963 Birmingham’s commissioner for public safety Bull Connor ordered that fire hoses and attack dogs be used on protestors. There, Condoleezza Rice discusses Dr. King’s legacy and his impact on her life.”

“None other has had so profound an influence upon all who have lived and will yet live upon the earth.” – – The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles (January 1, 2000)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/the-living-christ-the-testimony-of-the-apostles/the-living-christ-the-testimony-of-the-apostles?lang=eng#title1

“We humbly pray that thou wilt accept this edifice and pour out thy blessings upon it as a house to which thou wilt come and in which thy Spirit will direct all that is done, that it may be accepted unto thee. Let thy Spirit and blessings attend and guide all who officiate herein, that a feeling of holiness will prevail in every room of this, thy holy house. May all who enter have clean hands and pure hearts, and may they be built up in their faith and depart with a feeling of peace and praising thy holy name.” – – Excerpt, Dedicatory Prayer, Provo Utah Temple, 9 February 1972, President Joseph Fielding Smith

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/temples/details/provo-utah-temple/prayer/1972-02-09?lang=eng