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The gospel doesn’t convert strong leaders. It makes them.
Speaker: James E. FaustPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I sought my God, and my God I could not see;
I sought my soul and my soul eluded me;
I sought to serve my brother in his need and found all three:
My God, my soul, and thee.Speaker: AnonymousSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank,
Creation’s blot, creation’s blank.Speaker: Thomas GibbonsSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People will come to know the truth to the degree that they are true to the truth.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Doing] assists the education of the conscience and reinforces its knowledge in ways that no amount of church attending or studying can. Doing actually changes the fiber of a person’s nature – his soul, his conscience, his character. Doing changes his view of himself. A person’s behavior is largely a product of such self-made fuel.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ed said
When man found the mirror
They began to lose their souls.
He point, of course, is that
They began to concern themselves
With their images rather than
Their selves.
Other men’s eyes are mirrors
But the most distorting kind
For, if you look to them, you can only see
Reflections of your reflections,
Your warpings of their warpings.Speaker: Stan HermanSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Interestingly, a person can allow himself to be vulnerable on the surface of his life if he still retains a deep God/Christ-centered invulnerability. Then he can afford to be gentle and soft, to give and take, to give love without demanding anything in return – and that of course leaves him open to rebuffs and disappointments on occasion. But when a person is deeply vulnerable, centered on something other than God and therefore not securely rooted, he can’t afford to be vulnerable on the surface, or he risks being simply wiped out.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What a person is teaches far more eloquently than what a person says or even does. It communicates quietly, subtly; it is a constant radiation, and others, though unable to identify or articulate it, still understand it, sense it, absorb it, and respond to it.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am convinced that in the long run no one can hurt another without the other’s consent; that is, hurt him in a deeply significant, personal, internal sense. This is because we always have the power to choose a response to what someone else does to us. This may be the reason why failure to forgive someone else is a greater sin than that which he has done to us. That is, it causes more damage to the unforgiving one – a damage in the mind and heart – than that caused by what the other person may do to him externally.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive (stamped on those lifeless things),
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.Speaker: Percy Bysshe ShelleySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Inevitably, any time we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. Often the best defense is a good offense, and sometimes this manifests itself in cynicism, the defense of the mind, for when we expect nothing we will never be disappointed. So the attack frequently manifests itself in sarcasm, in cutting humor, in sharpness of tongue, in criticalness, and in anything which will keep from exposing the soft, vulnerable tenderness within. Each partner then will tend to wait upon the initiative of the other for love, only again to be disappointed but also to be confirmed as to the rightness of his or her own past accusations.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For most of us, one of the great needs in life is to be brought to visualize our potential and be motivated to reach for it.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In modern revelation, the Lord defines truth as “knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come.” (D&C 93:24) Notice very carefully the words used to describe truth. Truth is a knowledge of things. In other words, it is an internal mental understanding or grasping of the way things really are; it is the subjective accurately reflecting the objective, the personal correctly reflecting the real, the map truly reflecting the territory.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
An obstacle is what you see when you take your eye off your goal.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Freedom is born of obedience; the freedom to play the piano comes entirely from obedience to the laws of piano playing, from disciplined practicing, from sacrificing alternative activities to cultivate this talent. This is true in developing any talent, any skill, and virtually everyone accepts it as a fact. Why, then, is there resistance to the concept of obeying God, to keeping the commandments in the moral and spiritual realms?
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Keeping the commandments] is at once the most universally needed yet the most individualistic instruction possible.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way we live, particularly under strain and threat, is our clearest testimony. Over time it reflects what we really believe. If it is in harmony with what we say we believe, the Lord will use us and bear testimony though us in some way to every person we meet.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We simply can’t repent of our sins unless we repent of sinning. Unless we change our lifestyle by rooting gout of our nature these deeply-embedded habits and dispositions, we will continue on in a self-deceiving circular process of making and breaking resolutions to change and improve. In other words, we need to change our method of changing ourselves. We need a power source to help us, one which is stronger and more penetrating than the strength and depth of these habits.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A missionary once asked President Harold B. Lee, “What is the most important commandment in the gospel?” President Lee thought for a moment and then gave this profound, personalized response to the missionary. “Elder, the most important commandment of all is the one you’re having the greatest difficulty in living.”
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!