* be courteous…
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be will tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation [of...using knowledge wisely…
By Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles From a devotional address given at Brigham Young University on 23 January 2001. “We can learn vitally important things by what we hear and see and especially by what we feel, as prompted by the Holy...* no man…
“No man is himself in acute sorrow. No man is himself in anger. No man is himself with feelings of offense. And decisions that will wait are safer with waiting—waiting for time to take over, for the dust to clear away, for tempers to cool, for perspective...~ in an hour that ye think not
Elder Dallin H. Oaks, now in the First Presidency spoke in General Conference in April of 2004, saying: “….While we are powerless to alter the fact of the Second Coming and unable to know its exact time, we can accelerate our own preparation and try to...* freedom
“Beneath the visible, beyond the tangible, underlying the measurable, is the real force that makes [a people] great. It is the force of freedom. Freedom has a unique power all its own. It begins with material things—freedom from hunger, from cold, and from...devoted discipleship
Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostle wrote: “For most of us, the turn away from self and to the Lord that constitutes “putting off the natural man” is not an immediate, smooth, continuous, and uninterrupted about-face. Rather we...* urgency
Neal A. Maxwell said: “There is a special sense of urgency infusing itself into many… everywhere that says quietly, but insistently—this is the time for us to choose! It is not just that God will insist that we choose for our own sake, but that those...President Nelson—on Faith…
Elder Russell M. Nelson said as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 2014: “When we speak of faith—the faith that can move mountains—we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Faith in the Lord Jesus...* are you willing…?
(Posts with a preamble asterisk * are for a more general audience, and not specific to teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) “Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for...
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I am married and we have 3 children and many grandchildren. Our children have chosen wisely in their careers and in marriage and I attribute much of their success, as they do, to a close relationship with Jesus Christ… Click for more.