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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! -
“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.”
Speaker: Brandon SandersonSource: the Well of AscensionPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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 MurakamiSource: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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 MurakamiSource: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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 GitaSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“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. SalingerSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“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. SalingerSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.
Speaker: J.D. SalingerSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 5:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life asks of you what it thinks you can handle.
Posted: 17 Aug 2010 at 11:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 17 Aug 2010 at 10:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Not every picture needs a caption.
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A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving
Speaker: Lao TzuSource: http://zenhabits.net/no-goal/Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 5:53 PMComments: 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!
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