by kdm | Jan 30, 2026 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, The Plan, Today's Post
Dallin H. Oaks; from his book; Chapter 10 of “Life Lessons Learned”: I have been taught and have confirmed by personal observation and experience that laws enacted by governments are often blunt instruments that should be used for correction only when...
by kdm | Jan 26, 2026 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From chapter seven of Elder Dallin H. Oaks book “Life’s Lessons learned”: I had to learn two 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...
by kdm | Jan 23, 2026 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Our Prophet, Seer and Revelator Dallin H. Oaks wrote . . . . What I learned about the challenge of indifference in our time is evident in a letter I wrote in 1956. Then aged twenty-four, I was half way through my studies at the University of Chicago Law School. My...
by kdm | Dec 24, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from a previous post (somehow I lost this post ? so it’s reposted here: From Patricia T. Holland (deceased) and the book “On Earth as it is in Heaven” . . . . co-authored with her husband Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the...
by kdm | Dec 24, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from a previous post: Patricia T. Holland wrote: We were fasting and we were praying. We were living the gospel as well as we knew how. We were praying hard to be whatever it was God wanted us to be, and we were believers. At the close of that day of...
by kdm | Dec 10, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
Continuing from Jesus Authority IV . . .~Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Gaye Strathearn, Today, we do not expect a group of Pharisees to come from Jerusalem to see if we are observing the traditions or the elders. Instead modern society and popular culture have created...