Volume I · Est. 2024

Discover the Literature
Hidden in General Conference

Exploring the poetry, books, music, and classic works quoted by prophets and apostles — a quiet archive of the words behind the words.

try: Lewis · mercy · Holland · 2014
Featured Quotes

Words within words

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It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, i…

C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory
Quoted by Dieter F. Uchtdorf · April 2017
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There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland · October 2014
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The quality of mercy is not strain'd. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.

William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Quoted by Boyd K. Packer · April 1977
Recently Added

New citations in the archive

  • "May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."

    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    Sharon Eubank
    October 2017
  • "Trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home."

    William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality
    Russell M. Nelson
    October 2008
  • "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."

    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    October 2001
  • "God is not dead, nor doth He sleep; the wrong shall fail, the right prevail, with peace on earth, good-will to men."

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christmas Bells
    Henry B. Eyring
    October 2018

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