Category Archives: Playing on a Word

“Wear me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, passion cruel as the grave.”
-William Shakespeare (Henry V)

“Behold, I give unto you power, that whatsoever ye shall seal on earth shall be sealed in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
-Helaman 10:7 (in the Book of Mormon)

Signed, Sealed, Delivered. I’m Yours!”
-Stevie Wonder (duh)

“When a family is sealed in the temple, that family may become as eternal as the kingdom of God itself.”
-Elder Russel M. Nelson

Seal

coming back from my blogging break 🙂

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
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“More freedom from earth-stains; more longing for home.”
-“More Holiness Give Me” (Hymn #131)
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
-Ronald Reagan
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“Freedom? That’s just some people talking…”
-The Eagles
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“I like my freedom, and I don’t need him.
But I like when he’s near, so I’ll stay right here”
-Yours Truly (part of a poem I wrote a while ago)
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Freedom
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What freedoms do YOU enjoy?

“I speak unto you, Emma Smith, my daughter; for verily I say unto you…. behold thou art an elect lady, whom I have called.”
-Doctrine & Covenants 25:1-3
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“Pretty lady on my mind, she’s got me gone again.”
-Kalai
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“The lady protests too much, me thinks.”
-Gertrude in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”
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“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you’re a woman, but loose enough to show you’re a lady.”
-Marilyn Monroe
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Lady

I love words…

“We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.”
-Joseph Smith Jr. (Article of Faith #7)
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“One pair of candy lips and your bubble gum tongue.”
-John Mayer (back when he was a heartthrob)
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“[A]fter ye had received the Holy Ghost ye could speak with the tongue of angels”
-2nd Nephi 32:2 (in the Book of Mormon)
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“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or my heart, concealing it, will break.”
-Katherine in Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”
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“I have spoke with the tongue of angels, I have held the hand of the devil.”
-U2 “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”
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Tongue

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”
-Isaiah 1:18 (in the Old Testament in the Bible)
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“Those lips of thine have profaned their scarlet ornaments
And sealed false bonds of love as oft as mine..”
-Shakespeare’s Sonnet 142
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Scarlet