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but accepting each other when we don’t do the best we would want to be doneYes and in that vein I have a long way to go.
mom3 wrote:Grabbed this from a BCC post today. Needed it personally but willing to share.
Quote:“Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other” (Marvin J. Ashton, April 1992 General Conference).
Thanks, Mom. This one is going on my talk on Sunday.
Quote:Believing the word of God, I had confidence in the declaration of James—“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him” [James 1:5]. I retired to a secret place in a grove and began to call upon the Lord. While fervently engaged in supplication, my mind was taken away from the objects with which I was surrounded, and I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision and saw two glorious personages, who exactly resembled each other in features and likeness, surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noonday. – Joseph Smith (The Wentworth Letter)
Quote:“The Church I believe in is not an ascending hierarchy of the holy. It is millions of ordinary people calling one another “brother” and “sister” and trying to make it true.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Lusterware)
Quote:We have members in the church with a variety of different opinions and beliefs and positions on these issues, but … in our view it doesn’t become a problem unless someone is out attacking the church and its leaders, trying to get others to follow them, to draw others away, trying to pull people out of the church, or away from its teachings and doctrines.
D. Todd Christofferson
Quote:Dallin H. Oaks wrote:
It is not enough for anyone just to go through the motions. The commandments, ordinances, and covenants of the gospel are not a list of deposits required to be made in some heavenly account. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a plan that shows us how to become what our Heavenly Father desires us to become.
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I hope the importance of conversion and becoming will cause our local leaders to reduce their concentration on statistical measures of actions and to focus more on what our brothers and sisters are and what they are striving to become.
Our needed conversions are often achieved more readily by suffering and adversity than by comfort and tranquillity…
We do not obtain our heavenly reward by punching a time clock. What is essential is that our labors in the workplace of the Lord have caused us to become something. For some of us, this requires a longer time than for others. What is important in the end is what we have become by our labors. Many who come in the eleventh hour have been refined and prepared by the Lord in ways other than formal employment in the vineyard.
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Instead of being judgmental about others, we should be concerned about ourselves. We must not give up hope. We must not stop striving. We are children of God, and it is possible for us to become what our Heavenly Father would have us become.
NightSG wrote:“Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.” — Oscar Wilde
Between the past and the future is now. Between sin and sainthood is what you do with right now. You can’t do anything with your past. You can plan your future, but plans change. Every one of us has room to convert a little more right now.
Quote:“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.” – Blaise Pascal
Courtesy of “West”
Quote:“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Quote:I hope we will not live in the past. People who live in the past don’t have very much future. There is a great tendency for us to lament about our losses, about decisions that we have made that we think in retrospect were probably wrong decisions. There is a great tendency for us to feel badly about the circumstances with which we are surrounded, thinking they might have been better had we made different decisions. We can profit by the experience of the past. But let us not spend our time worrying about decisions that have been made, mistakes that have been made. Let us live in the present and in the future.
-Ezra Taft BensonQuote:We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor. In this way he can bring discouragement and surrender. But we must not lose hope. The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him. Though we may see that we have far to go on the road to perfection, we must not give up hope.
Ezra Taft Benson(I almost edited out the Satan part but decided to leave it for those that believe Satan has such influence.)
Quote:Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
– Viktor Frankl
Quote:When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen. – Unattributed
Quote:The only way to live is to let others live. – Gandhi
Quote:In our day, as in times past, many people expect that if there be revelation it will come with awe-inspiring, earth-shaking display. For many it is hard to accept as revelation those numerous ones in Moses’ time, in Joseph’s time, and in our own year—those revelations which come to prophets as deep, unassailable impressions settling down on the prophet’s mind and heart as dew from heaven or as the dawn dissipates the darkness of night.
Spencer W. Kimball, April 1977
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