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(5/1/05)
"We should not underestimate or overlook the power of the Lord's tender
mercies. The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies
of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in
which we do now and will yet live. When words cannot provide the solace we need
or express the joy we feel, when it is simply futile to attempt to explain that
which is unexplainable, when logic and reason cannot yield adequate
understanding about the injustices and inequities of life, when mortal
experience and evaluation are insufficient to produce a desired outcome, and
when it seems that perhaps we are so totally alone, truly we are blessed by the
tender mercies of the Lord and made mighty even unto the power of deliverance
(see 1 Nephi 1:20)." -
David A. Bednar, "The
Tender Mercies of the Lord," General Conference, April 2005
3/24/06
11/4/06
"Understanding that the Church is a learning laboratory helps us to prepare for
an inevitable reality. In some way and at some time, someone in this Church will
do or say something that could be considered offensive. Such an event will
surely happen to each and every one of us—and it certainly will occur more than
once. Though people may not intend to injure or offend us, they nonetheless can
be inconsiderate and tactless.
"You and I cannot control the intentions or behavior of other people. However,
we do determine how we will act. Please remember that you and I are agents
endowed with moral agency, and we can choose not to be offended." - David A.
Bednar, "And
Nothing Shall Offend Them," Ensign, November 2006
4/10/07
"We are instructed to 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny
[ourselves] of all ungodliness' (Moroni
10:32), to become 'new creature[s]' in Christ (see
2 Corinthians 5:17), to
put off 'the natural man' (Mosiah
3:19), and to experience 'a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we
have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually' (Mosiah
5:2). Please note that the conversion described in these verses is mighty,
not minor—a spiritual rebirth and fundamental change of what we feel and desire,
what we think and do, and what we are. Indeed, the essence of the gospel of
Jesus Christ entails a fundamental and permanent change in our very nature made
possible through our reliance upon 'the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy
Messiah' (2 Nephi 2:8). As we
choose to follow the Master, we choose to be changed—to be spiritually reborn."
- David A. Bednar, "Ye
Must Be Born Again," General Conference, April 2007
11/4/07
"We will not
attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward
with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress
toward our eternal destiny. The Lord’s pattern for spiritual development is
'line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little'
(2 Nephi 28:30). Small,
steady, incremental spiritual improvements are the steps the Lord would have us
take. Preparing to walk guiltless before God is one of the primary purposes of
mortality and the pursuit of a lifetime; it does not result from sporadic spurts
of intense spiritual activity." - David A. Bednar, "Clean Hands and a Pure Heart," General
Conference, 7 October 2007
5/4/08
"I
long have been impressed with the truth that meaningful prayer requires both
holy communication and consecrated work. Blessings require some effort on our
part before we can obtain them, and prayer, as 'a
form of work, . . . is an appointed means for obtaining the highest of all
blessings' (Bible Dictionary, “Prayer,”
753). We press forward and persevere in the consecrated work of prayer, after we
say 'amen,'
by acting upon the things we have expressed to Heavenly Father."
- David A. Bednar, "Ask
in Faith," General Conference, April 2008