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Continuing from Modern Liahonas II, Quoting form “All Things New” by Fiona and Terryl Givens: The call to discipleship is not for the faint of heart: “Then Jesus said to his disciples, If anyone [desires] to come after me, let him forget self and...* Chastity
From Brad Wilcox’s book ‘Changed Through Grace’: In addition to obeying, sacrificing, and living the gospel, God asks us to live the law of chastity. We show we value God and Christ’s purity as we are willing to engage with them in living...Favored of the Lord All My Days
Elder Moisés Villanueva of the Seventy said in October 2021 general conference: Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, want us to have joy.2 President Russell M. Nelson has taught: “The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and...* Reserve Resources
Richard L. Evans wrote: In days of deepening disappointment we react in many ways, depending upon our teaching and temperament, upon our outlook and understanding, and upon the faith and foundations on which our feet are fixed. To sudden and shocking news, depression...“My Yoke is Easy II”
Continuing from a previous post ‘My Yoke is Easy’: Some people reject the idea of grace because it seems too easy. They want being saved to be harder than it is. There is a certain comfort in saying, “Salvation is so hard that I just couldn’t...Modern Liahonas II
Continuing from ‘Modern Liahonas,’ quoting form “All Things New” by Fiona and Terryl Givens: We do have at least one revealed litmus test for truth; it comes from the greatest of Joseph Smith’s revelations, Moses 7. There we encounter the...* God’s Mercy
Neal A. Maxwell wrote: The Mercy of God is so personalized. Aaron’s behavior in the golden calf episode was not his finest hour, yet later a priesthood was named after him (Exodus 32:1-6, 21, 24, 26). There are so many ways in which God demonstrates His...Spiritual Estrangement
From the book ‘The Gift of the Atonement’, Brent L.Top writes of the Atonement: President Harold B. Lee once stated, “The heaviest burden that anyone can carry is the burden of sin.” Each of us has borne and continues to bear that to some...My Yoke is Easy
From Stephen E. Robinson (deceased), his book ‘Believing Christ’: Those who plan to enter the Kingdom of God on their own merits do not understand how perfection comes or where the credit of it must go. They glory in their own efforts and attribute...
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