Reason, Feeling, Experience

From his book  “Spirituality Anchored in Unsettled Times” Bruce C. Hafen writes: The three elements that form and support a complete testimony as the above title. I draw again on the metaphor of a triangle to show how these elements interconnect, because...

Answers to Prayer II

From Robert L. Millet and his book “Talking with God”: (continued) There is a whole host of ways in which our Heavenly Father and our Savior may choose to communicate with us and sustain us. One way is through our minds, through our thoughts. The Prophet...

Answers to Prayer

From Robert L. Millet and his book “Talking with God”. . . From Robert L. Millet and his book “Answers to Prayer”. . . . Jesus revealed a marvelous truth, a consummate insight, when he explained: “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He...

Humility

From President Dallin H. Oaks and his book “Life’s Lessons Learned” I have had to learn lessons about humility: first, what it is, and second, how to seek it and keep it. Humility is essentially a consciousness of one’s personal inadequacies....

Faith in Our Prayers

From Robert L. Millet and his book “Talking with God”: Some years ago an anti-Mormon organization placed forty thousand of a book on the doorsteps of people living in the Orem and Provo areas of Utah. The book was intended to warn those not of the LDS...

Testimony

From Bruce C. Hafen and his book “Spiritually Anchored in Unsettled Times”: If we really want a testimony, we, like Nephi, must desire to find God above all other desires. As Alma compared growing a seed with growing a testimony, he said, “Even if ye...

Humility II

(It’s uncertain as to if this was properly posted. . . . so here it is again. . . .) From President Dallin H. Oaks and his book “Life’s Lessons Learned” I have had to learn lessons about humility: first, what it is, and second, how to seek it...

Did You Think to Pray? II

Continuing from a previous post Robert L. Millet quotes evangelist Billy Graham. . . . Some years ago I read Billy Graham’s autobiography and was deeply touched by these words: “Although I have much to be grateful for as I look back over my life, I also...

How Do I Know?

From his book “Spiritually Anchored in Unsettled Times, Bruce C. Hafen wrote: Missionaries need to understand what a testimony is and how it develops—first for their own spiritual security and then so they can teach their investigators how to recognize...

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