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(5/13/99)
"One of the great tragedies that can come in a human's life is the
destruction of self-respect. This destruction is often self-inflicted.
Elevated expressions of human feelings, example, and courtesy build
self-respect. People are lifted when they are treated as if they
already were what they could be." — Marvin J. Ashton, "Proper
Self-Management", General Conference, October 1976
(5/14/99)
"To know who we are is important, but to know where we are in
relationship to our earthly home and heavenly home is essential if we
are to receive all the blessings our Father in Heaven has for those
who love him and keep his commandments. Our eternal home is our
ultimate destination. A proper yearning for home can prevent our
getting lost in detours or paths that lead us away." — Marvin J.
Ashton, "A Yearning For Home", General Conference, October 1992
(5/15/99)
"How tragic it is to see, on occasion, a life of usefulness lost
because we have allowed an unkind comment to cause a wound or hurt. We
let the injury become an open sore and fester rather than treat it
with prompt skill and maturity. Some try to get even with their
offenders by dropping out of life's race. How weak, how damaging, how
self-restricting is the often used statement, 'I'll never go back as
long as that person is there!'" — Marvin J. Ashton, "Roadblocks To
Progress", General Conference, April 1979
(5/16/99)
"We strengthen and build by pointing out the good traits of a person
and cause fear and weakness by being unduly critical. I am in
agreement that tact is rubbing out another's mistakes instead of
rubbing them in." — Marvin J. Ashton, "Strengthen The Feeble Knees",
General Conference, October 1991
(5/21/04)
"Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and
women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that
unprecedented appearance of the Father and the Son in the Sacred
Grove, the very first word spoken by the Father of us all was the
personal name of Joseph. Such is our Father's personal relationship
with each of us. He knows our names and yearns for us to become worthy
to return to live with Him." - M. Russell Ballard, "The
Atonement
and the Value of One Soul," General Conference, April 2004
(1/27/05)
"As with the bud, so with the blossom. A boy is the only thing known
from which a man can be made. I hope that we as parents are teaching
our children that they are the sons and daughters of God, and that
they have the capacity to become like him. It was the old Edinburgh
weaver who prayed, 'O God, help me to hold a high opinion of myself.'
Likewise I would counsel young people to hold a high opinion of
themselves, to remember who they really are, and to put their faith in
their Heavenly Father." - Paul H. Dunn, "Young
People-Learn
Wisdom in Thy Youth," Ensign, June 1971, p. 103
(2/23/05)
"I used to wonder, as a teacher so-called, why the Savior would spend
time citing three parables about things that get lost. And then one
day it dawned. People do get lost in various ways, and here in this
great chapter of Luke [Luke
15] we find the Savior counseling how to recover them.
"Permit me this observation: The Savior might say to us today, if he
were to teach this parable again, that sheep (or people who get lost)
are not basically sinners by nature or even choice, but people, like
sheep, get confused in what's important. In other words, they have
misplaced values. And I am sure the Savior would say to the teacher in
the classroom, to the adviser, 'If you want to retrieve this kind of
person, put a higher value in place of the one he now elects.' Family,
service, brotherhood are all greener pastures for today's sheep.
Feeding here brings them home." - Paul H. Dunn, "What
Is
a Teacher?" Ensign, Dec. 1971, p. 119
(5/11/05)
"Not all of us are going to be like
Moroni, catching the acclaim of our colleagues all day every day.
Most of us will be quiet, relatively unknown folks who come and go
and do our work without fanfare. To those of you who may find that
lonely or frightening or just unspectacular, I say, you are 'no less
serviceable' than the most spectacular of your associates. You, too,
are part of God’s army." - Howard W. Hunter, "No
Less Serviceable," Ensign, Apr. 1992, p. 64
8/3/06
The life of God—the eternal, exalted life we all seek—is
inherently concerned with the salvation of souls. It is the 'work and
... glory' of God to bring 'to pass the immortality and eternal life
of man.' (Moses
1:39.) It is by bringing about the conditions necessary for the
salvation of his children that God glorifies himself, progresses, and
expands his dominions. (See
D&C 132:31.)
"Paul said that God 'will have all men to be saved.' (1
Tim. 2:4.) To our Father in Heaven, 'the worth of souls is
great' (D&C
18:10), and 'the redemption of their soul is precious.' (Ps.
49:8.) Therefore, God sent his Son, the Savior and Redeemer, to
loose the bands of death and atone for the sins of carnal, fallen men.
The Lord suffered the pain of all men that all men might come unto him
on condition of repentance. (See
D&C 18:11-12.)" - Jack H Goaslind, Jr., "Our
Responsibility to Take the Gospel to the Ends of the Earth,"
Ensign (CR), November 1983, p.32
10/13/09
“How can Christian
belief and morality translate more completely into Christian action?
Does our commitment fall short of being a consecration? The doubting
Thomas wanted to believe; he believed part way. It is my firm
persuasion that building self-esteem sufficiently to forsake all evil
requires a consecration to the saving principles and ordinances of the
gospel under divine priesthood authority. It must be consecration to
simple, basic Christian principles, including honesty to self and
others, forgetting of self, integrity of thought and action. The
principles of the restored gospel are so plain, so clear, so
compassionate, so endowed with beauty, so graced with love unfeigned,
as to be imprinted with the indisputable impress of the Savior
himself.” - James E. Faust, “The Dignity of Self,” Ensign (CR),
May 1981, p. 8
5/21/10
"Spiritual
self-esteem begins with the realization that each new morning is a gift
from God. Even the air we breathe is a loving loan from him. He
preserves us from day to day and supports us from one moment to another
(see Mosiah 2:21)." - Russell M.
Nelson, "Joy Cometh in the Morning," Ensign (CR), November 1986, p. 67
5/22/10
"Most of us who have ever
heard of the great American leader Abraham Lincoln will recall what he
said of his mother: 'All that I am, all that I hope to be, I owe to my
Angel mother.' (in Abraham Lincoln's Philosophy of Common Sense, ed.
Edward J. Kempf, New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1965, p.
60.) But how many of us know what his mother's last words to him were?
They were 'Be something, Abe.'" - Marvin
J. Ashton, "The Word Is Commitment", Ensign (CR), November 1983, p. 61
10/13/11
This is a paradox of
man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.
While against the backdrop of infinite creation we may appear to be
nothing, we have a spark of eternal fire burning within our breast. We
have the incomprehensible promise of exaltation—worlds without
end—within our grasp. And it is God’s great desire to help us reach it.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "
2/24/17
With the help of the scriptures, words of the prophets, and
personal revelation, we gradually come to an awareness of our true
nature and destiny. Once we grasp this reality, we can obtain the
faith to move forward and overcome any obstacle standing in our
way of fulfilling our foreordained destiny—including the obstacle
of feelings of low self-worth. – Glenn
L. Pace, “Confidence
and Self-Worth,” Ensign, January 2005