love

“Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire… it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.”  ~Henry Van Dyke Henry Van Dyke speaks here of romantic love. I have noticed that in constantly deepening of...

lasting happiness

The gospel teaches us that we are all created for a happiness that endures. How can more of us achieve it? We… read in Mosiah 2:41 that we “should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in...

voices, prayer

In daily living and prayer we are subject to three primary voices: our self talk, the Lord speaking to us, and the adversary and his minions (which really can become a multitude of voices, if we listen and follow them). First: We self talk almost constantly while we...

a trifle

“Plato once rebuked a person for engaging in a gambling game.  And when the person protested that he had only played for a ‘trifle,’ Plato replied: “The habit is not a trifle.” ~Plato When I look at my past, even back to my youth,...

come what may!

“I am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination [as for a Mormon]; for the same principle which would trample upon the rights of the Latter-day Saints...

fight… or perish?

“You cannot run away from a weakness.  You must sometime fight it out or perish.  And if it be so, why not now and where you stand?” ~Robert Louis Stevenson Weaknesses clutter our lives slowing/stopping our progress toward worthwhile goals.  Should we...

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