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Neal Maxwell said – “Personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the alter. Instead it is a willingness to place the animal in us upon the alter”
Quote:“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali
Elder Oaks, Oct. 2014: Quote:When our positions do not prevail, we should accept unfavorable results graciously and practice civility with our adversaries. In any event, we should be persons of goodwill toward all, rejecting persecution of any kind, including persecution based on race, ethnicity, religious belief or non-belief, and differences in sexual orientation.
Quote:…I actually worry quite a bit in our church that in our desire to be obedient that little by little we come to believe that we have received all of the answers. And therefore, if you ask questions, you’re not judged as “obedient people.” And I think that’s scary. And just like the unilateral decision that they had all of the answers plunged them into the great apostasy, if we ever believe that we have all of the answers and therefore we shouldn’t ask questions, I have the same kind of worry for us because the Lord has said…this is the ninth Article of Faith, that we believe that there will be many great and important things pertaining to the kingdom of God that have yet to be revealed, and revealed to us as individuals. And so, we need to just always remember that we reverence questions, and there’s a real difference between questioning and questions.
-Clayton ChristensenFrom the TV show “The Middle”
Quote:Brick Heck: Do you really believe all that stuff in the Bible is true?
Sue Heck: Oh, absolutely
Brick: I don’t know…but it is a really cool story!
Quote:The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Oct. 2014I feel like a talk on pinhole cameras is somewhere in our future. Quote:“When we plant a rose seed in the Earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as ‘rootless and stemless.’ We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.
When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don’t condemn it as immature and underdeveloped; we do not criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.
The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains it’s whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.
A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing… A flower in the process of expressing its potential.”
Timothy Gallwey
Old-Timer wrote:The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains it’s whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.
Thanks Ray. I needed to read this today.From online business guru Marie Forleo – Quote:Anytime you make something the enemy. It’s going to be a source of pain in your life.
Just saw this on Bill Reel’s Facebook. For any of you who like using a non-KJV of the Bible occasionally I thought you might like to make a little bookmark out of it. Quote:“Is there any value then for the Latter-day Saint in using modern English translations?
Although the Church prefers to continue with the KJV for its English-speaking members, we should not assume that the many other translations are not useful. They oftentimes explain passages that are difficult to understand. In cases of confusing phrases and archaic words, readers can quickly compare the verses with those in other translations. In addition, comparing many different translations will often expand one’s understanding of a particular verse.”
The Ensign, June 1986
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1987/06/i-have-a-question?lang=eng Quote:“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them – we can love completely without complete understanding.”
― Norman Maclean
Quote:There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, “Business as usual.” But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God’s, that the self-righteous should rush.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Quote:If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Buddha
Quote:It also seems to me that it [the church] continues to treat people as groups instead of as individuals. I feel like my relationship with the Savior is an individual one. If there is a concern about a family, then let’s deal with that family. Is there a way we can make the kids in Primary feel more welcome? Can we make sure the bishop knows the moms or the dads well and that the home teachers are helping if there are difficulties? It seems to me that if the concern is that if we feel that there is sexual sin there in an ongoing basis, then I think the policy should be that in ANY family where sexual sin in there in an ongoing basis there may be an extra interview or process required for ordination of children. That’s great, and by the way if that were the case the bishop would be dealing with a lot more straight families than gay ones.
Tom Christofferson, brother of D. Todd Chrstifferson
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