Self Respect

Continuing from yesterday’s post, writings from the book “Protecting Against Eternal Identify Theft:” . . .This love for self might be more palatable to some when it is labeled self-respect. Elder Neal A. Maxwell penned, “This is one of the...

* Love self and love others. . .

From the book “Protecting Against Eternal Identity Theft” we read: Am I as gentle and patient with myself as I am with others? If not, why not?   “When the Lord tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves, He is teaching that it is normal and...

Looking beyond the mark. . .

Glen L. Pace said: “One activity that often leads a member to be critical is engaging in inappropriate intellectualism. While it would seem the search for and discovery of truth should be the goal of all Latter-day Saints, it appears some get more satisfaction...

* Aging. It’s no fun.

From his book “Traveling Light” Max Lucado wrote: “Aging. It’s no fun. The way we try to avoid it, you’d think we could. We paint the body, preserve the body, protect the body. And well we should. These bodies are gifts. We should be...

Moving towards Christ

From Elder Henry B. Eyring’s book “To Draw Closer to God:” . . . .“Now, you may feel that I have given you only a modest hope. You want to know, to be sure—if possible, by some clear sign— that your sins are remitted. So do I. But you and I...

* What´s Past is Prologue

Richard L. Evans wrote: There is a comforting line from Shakespeare which in one short sentence has much to suggest: “What’s past is prologue.” 101 It is a plea for hope, for new beginnings, for not brooding about what cannot be reclaimed or recalled, a plea for faith...

Come Unto Christ

From Elder Henry B. Eyring, Second Councillor it the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . . at first reflecting upon receiving his Patriarchal Blessing as a boy from his great uncle Gaskell Romney: “. . . . He began to tell me about...

* Truly We Can All Be Less Fearful

From Jeffrey R. Holland (referring to Psalms 89:9): Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.  There are times in all of our lives when storms of emotion, tribulation, or sorrow swirl about us and we plead for someone to...

Knowing as We Do II. . .

Continuing from ′Knowing as We Do′: Really trusting in the living Lord includes trusting his timing. . . . The woman of Canaan sensed that Jesus was a special being. Nevertheless, she was told by the Savior himself that he was ″not sent but unto the lost sheep of the...

* Fringe

From Richard L. Evans the host of “Music and the Spoken Word” broadcast from Salt Lake City for decades (in the last century) shared: “In thumbing through common place words we find “fringe”—and we find it thus in part defined as “ornamental border. . .” or...

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