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(1/21/04)
"Lehi and his family knew something of the perils of the wilderness.
Indeed, for Lehi, life was a wilderness. He and his family also knew
something
of the lifesaving qualities of a reliable compass. The Liahona
provided their
direction through the desert. Its directing capability came not from a
magnetic
field but rather 'according to the faith and diligence and heed' (1
Ne. 16:28) which Lehi and
his family gave to the directions that appeared on this compass." -
Lance
B. Wickman, "Of
Compasses
and Covenants," Ensign, June 1996, p. 38
5/10/08
"We really are immortal in the
sense that Christ’s Atonement conquers death, both physical and
spiritual. And
provided we have so lived Today that we have claim on
the Atonement’s cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This
life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a
time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which
justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for
they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who
wisely use Today." - Lance B.
Wickman, "Today,"
General Conference, April 2008
10/8/08
"It
remains only for you and me to both seek and tender
that forgiveness—to both repent and to extend charity to others—which
enables us to pass through the door the Savior holds open, thus to
cross the threshold from this life into exaltation. Today is
the day to forgive others their trespasses, secure in the knowledge
that the Lord will thus forgive ours. As Luke significantly recorded,
“Be ye therefore merciful” (Luke
6:36; emphasis added). Perfection
may elude us here, but we can be merciful. And in the end, repenting
and forgiving are among God’s chief requirements of us."
- Lance B. Wickman, "Today," Ensign, May 2008
3/21/10
“Still, we mortals quite naturally want to know the why. Yet, in
pressing too earnestly for the answer, we may forget that mortality
was designed, in a manner of speaking, as the season of unanswered
questions. Mortality has a different, more narrowly defined purpose:
It is a proving ground, a probationary state, a time to walk by faith,
a time to prepare to meet God (see, for example, Abr. 3:24-25; 2 Ne.
31:15-16, 20; Alma 12:24; Alma 42:4-13). It is in nurturing humility
(see Alma 32:6-21) and submissiveness (see Mosiah 3:19) that we may
comprehend a fulness of the intended mortal experience and put
ourselves in a frame of mind and heart to receive the promptings of
the Spirit. Reduced to their essence, humility and submissiveness are
an expression of complete willingness to let the ‘why’ questions go
unanswered for now, or perhaps even to ask, ‘Why not?’ It is in
enduring well to the end (see 2 Ne. 31:15-16; Alma 32:15; D&C
121:8) that we achieve this life’s purposes. I believe that
mortality’s supreme test is to face the ‘why’ and then let it go,
trusting humbly in the Lord’s promise that ‘all things must come to
pass in their time’ (D&C 64:32).” - Lance B. Wickman, “But If
Not,” Ensign (CR), November 2002, p. 30
3/15/14
It remains only for you and me to both seek and tender that
forgiveness—to both repent and to extend charity to others—which
enables us to pass through the door the Savior holds open, thus to
cross the threshold from this life into exaltation. Today is the day
to forgive others their trespasses, secure in the knowledge that the
Lord will thus forgive ours. As Luke significantly recorded, “Be ye
therefore merciful” (Luke
6:36). Perfection may elude us here, but we can be merciful.
And in the end, repenting and forgiving are among God’s chief
requirements of us. - Lance B.
Wickman, “Today,”
Ensign (CR) May 2008