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  • Grace is the changing power that comes from living a LIFESTYLE of repentance.

    Speaker: Justin Top
    Source: Education Week 2010, Making Repentance a Lifestyle
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 10:09 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: becoming
  • Meekness is disciplined, under control, knowing when to talk and when not to talk. A meek person ACTS—not reacts. He is in control of self and situation. Fear is the opposite of meekness.

    Source: Education Week 2010, Trying to Be Like Jesus
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 10:05 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: becoming
  • It is not even enough for us to be convinced of the gospel; we must act and think so that we are converted by it. Now is the time for each of us to work toward our personal conversion, toward becoming what our Heavenly Father desires us to become.

    Speaker: Dallin H. Oaks
    Source: The Challenge to Become, Ensign, November 2000
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 10:01 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: becoming
  • The best indicator in your progression is how you are treating others.

    Speaker: Marvin J. Ashton
    Source: Education Week 2010, Patrick Degn's class
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:58 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: becoming
  • We are not called “human-doings,” but “human BEINGS.” It isn’t all the things that we are doing that make the difference; it is what we are becoming through those “doings” that count.

    Speaker: Brad Wilcox
    Source: Education Week 2010
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:44 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: becoming
  • One who chooses to follow Christ chooses to change.

    Speaker: Brad Wilcox
    Source: Education Week 2010
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:42 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: becoming
  • “Perhaps the Lord needs such men on the outside of His Church to help it along,” said the late Elder Orson F. Whitney of the Quorum of the Twelve. “They are among its auxiliaries, and can do more good for the cause where the Lord has placed them, than anywhere else. They are our partners in a certain sense.”

    Source: Civic Standards for the Faithful Saints, Engisn, July 1972 (Whitney: Conference Report, April 1928, p. 59)
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:40 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: church
  • The Master’s reward in the Final Judgment will not be based on how long we have labored in the vineyard. 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. These workers are like the prepared dry mix to which it is only necessary to “add water”—the perfecting ordinance of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. With that addition—even in the eleventh hour—these workers are in the same state of development and qualified to receive the same reward as those who have labored long in the vineyard.

    Speaker: Dallin H. Oaks
    Source: The Challenge to Become, Ensign, 2000, November
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:36 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: becoming
  • We prepare the soil, we don’t plant the seed. (Alma 32)

    Speaker: Kevin Hinckley
    Source: Education Week, 2010
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:25 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: faith
  • Perhaps more of us… could literally, or at least figuratively, behold the angels around us if we would but awaken from our stupor and hear the voice of the Spirit as those angels try to speak….
    I believe we need to speak of and believe in and bear testimony to the ministry of angels more than we sometimes do. They constitute one of God’s great methods of witnessing through the veil…

    Source: CES Symposium on the Book of Mormon • 9 August 1994
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:24 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
  • The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.

    Speaker: Julie B. Beck
    Source: Ensign, 2010, May
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:07 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: revelation
  • “The Spirit of God speaking to the spirit of man has power to impart truth with greater effect and understanding than the truth can be imparted by personal contact even with heavenly beings. Through the Holy Ghost the truth is woven into the very fibre and sinews of the body so that it cannot be forgotten”

    Source: Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. [1954–56], 1:47–48
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:05 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: holy-ghost
  • The objective of those who give criticism is to change the one being criticized…but instead of changing them, it kills them.

    Source: Education Week
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:02 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: change, criticism
  • No one will change a person who is unwilling to change. Not even fear of death by cancer will stop the smoker who is unwilling to change. People don’t change people. People change themselves or are changed by the Holy Ghost.

    Speaker: Dr. John L. Lund
    Source: Education Week 2010
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:00 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: attitude, change
  • “At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different,” Sazed said. “Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination, he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”

    Source: the Well of Ascension
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:52 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: marriage
  • I leaned one elbow on the table and considered the clock. Watching the hands of a clock advance is a meaningless way to spend time, but I couldn’t think of anything better to do. Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

    Speaker: Haruki Murakami
    Source: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:28 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • It seems to me a lot of trouble in this world has its origins in vague speech. Most people, when they go around not speaking clearly, somewhere in their unconscious they’re asking for trouble

    Speaker: Haruki Murakami
    Source: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:22 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • You have the right to work, but for the work’s sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either.
    Perform every action with your heart fixed on the Supreme Lord. Renounce attachment to the fruits. Be even-tempered in success and failure; for it is this evenness of temper which is meant by yoga.
    Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. Seek refuge in the knowledge of Brahman. They who work selfishly for results are miserable.

    Speaker: Bhagavad Gita
    Source: Franny and Zooey
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:17 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • “He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.” Zooey

    Speaker: J.D. Salinger
    Source: Franny and Zooey
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:07 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: religion
  • “What happened was, I got the idea in my head – and I could not get it out – that college was one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything. I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven’s sake. What’s the difference if treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge? It all seemed like exactly the same thing to me, if you take off the wrapping – and it still does! Sometimes I think that knowledge – when it’s knowledge for knowledge’s sake, anyway – is the worst of all. The least excusable, certainly.” Franny

    Speaker: J.D. Salinger
    Source: Franny and Zooey
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:05 PM
    Posted By: Puck