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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.
Speaker: Ronald BartholomewSource: Education Week 2010, Trying to Be Like JesusPosted: 25 Aug 2010 at 10:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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. OaksSource: The Challenge to Become, Ensign, November 2000Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 10:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best indicator in your progression is how you are treating others.
Speaker: Marvin J. AshtonSource: Education Week 2010, Patrick Degn's classPosted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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 WilcoxSource: Education Week 2010Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One who chooses to follow Christ chooses to change.
Speaker: Brad WilcoxSource: Education Week 2010Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“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.”
Speaker: President Ezra Taft BensonSource: Civic Standards for the Faithful Saints, Engisn, July 1972 (Whitney: Conference Report, April 1928, p. 59)Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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. OaksSource: The Challenge to Become, Ensign, 2000, NovemberPosted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We prepare the soil, we don’t plant the seed. (Alma 32)
Speaker: Kevin HinckleySource: Education Week, 2010Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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…Speaker: Elder Jeffrey R. HollandSource: CES Symposium on the Book of Mormon • 9 August 1994Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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. BeckSource: Ensign, 2010, MayPosted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“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”
Speaker: President Joseph Fielding SmithSource: Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. [1954–56], 1:47–48Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The objective of those who give criticism is to change the one being criticized…but instead of changing them, it kills them.
Speaker: (paraphrased) Dr. John L. LundSource: Education WeekPosted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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. LundSource: Education Week 2010Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is… A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
Speaker: C.S. LewisSource: Mere ChristianityPosted: 22 Jul 2010 at 2:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light.
Speaker: C. S. LewisSource: Mere ChristianityPosted: 22 Jul 2010 at 2:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 24 Jun 2010 at 4:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from sin and the bad influences in our lives; it also essentially entails doing good, being good, and becoming better. Repenting of our sins and seeking forgiveness are spiritually necessary, and we must always do so. But remission of sin is not the only or even the ultimate purpose of the gospel. To have our hearts changed by the Holy Spirit such that “we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually” (Mosiah 5:2), as did King Benjamin’s people, is the covenant responsibility we have accepted. This mighty change is not simply the result of working harder or developing greater individual discipline. Rather, it is the consequence of a fundamental change in our desires, our motives, and our natures made possible through the Atonement of Christ the Lord. Our spiritual purpose is to overcome both sin and the desire to sin, both the taint and the tyranny of sin.
Speaker: Elder David A. BednarSource: Ensign, "Clean Hands and a Pure Heart"Posted: 11 Dec 2009 at 8:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you. And your natural self, which is thus being starved and hampered and worried at every turn, will get angrier and angrier. It is as though Jesus were saying to each of us: 'Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. . . .
Hand over the whole natural self. . . . I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.'Speaker: C. S. LewisSource: Mere Christianity, page 166Posted: 03 Sep 2009 at 2:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.”
Speaker: C.S LewisSource: Mere Christianity, page 21Posted: 03 Sep 2009 at 2:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
Speaker: Winston ChurchillPosted: 03 Sep 2009 at 2:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!