Quotes about Recommendation

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.

Therefore do what we advise you. There are four men with us who have taken a vow.

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

The Rhodes scholarship process was very extensive. I had to do several personal statements, rewrite those over and over and over again. I had to get some letters of recommendation.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.

As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.