Let me share with you some suggestions for alleviating contention: Pray to have the love of God in your heart. Sometimes this is a struggle, but the Spirit of the Lord can soften hard feelings and mellow a callous spirit. Learn to control your tongue. There is an old maxim and an excellent one: “Think […]
Moses became aware of the magnitude of the creation and its purpose firsthand, by talking face to face with God and beholding his works. There are few who have had that experience. But others have beheld God’s majesty through his works. Abraham Lincoln stated his conviction when he said that he could not conceive how […]
I should like to name first the duty that rests upon every parent and upon every teacher within this Church to arouse within the mind of the child, a sense of responsibility toward other individuals and towards society. The sacredness of personality is a fundamental teaching of Jesus Christ. One great writer in this age, […]
Our homes can be, and should be, a refuge and a sanctuary from the troubled world we live in; may they become such by striving daily to keep sacred the holy covenants we have made. – Eran A. Call, “The Home: A Refuge and Sanctuary,” Ensign (CR) November 1997
It was Thomas Mann who said, “Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the hours.” (The Magic Mountain.) Our moods do change, so we need to distinguish between a mood and a basic belief. The Book of Mormon doesn’t become untrue because we have had a bad day! When one […]
Father in Heaven has provided us tools that help to build the fortifications between our vulnerabilities and our faithfulness. Consider the following suggestions: Make covenants and receive ordinances for yourself. … Share the gospel with nonmember or less-active family members or friends. … Serve faithfully in all Church callings … Most important, serve the members […]
Remembrance is the seed of gratitude which is the seed of generosity. Gratitude for the remission of sins is the seed of charity, the pure love of Christ. And so God has made possible for you and me this blessing, a change in our very natures: “And the remission of sins bringeth meekness, and lowliness […]
It is not enough to study or reenact the accomplishments of our pioneers. We need to identify the great, eternal principles they applied to achieve all they achieved for our benefit and then apply those principles to the challenges of our day. In that way we honor their pioneering efforts, and we also reaffirm our […]
Trust in the Lord is a familiar and true teaching in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. That was Joseph Smith’s teaching when the early Saints experienced severe persecutions and seemingly insurmountable obstacles.9 That is still the best principle we can use when our efforts to learn or our attempts to find comfort […]
Foreshadowing our day, the Lord said, “The heavens shall shake, and also the earth; and great tribulations shall be among the children of men, but my people will I preserve.”1 We should take great comfort in this promise. Though disasters completely disrupt “the even tenor of [our ways],”2 they do not have to leave our […]