The second absolute truth is that there is an adversary—Satan, the tempter—who would lead us away from God and His infinite peace. Note that the Hebrew translation for devil is the “spoiler.” Satan is the spoiler because he would confound our moral compass and spoil our journey back to a loving Father in Heaven. – Richard B. Wirthlin, […]
Gospel covenants and ordinances operate in our lives much like a compass. A compass is a device used to indicate the cardinal directions of north, south, east, and west for purposes of navigation and geographic orientation. In a similar way, our covenants and ordinances point us to and help us always remember our connection with […]
It has been stated that the purpose of the gospel is to change peoples’ lives, to make bad people good and good people better, to change human nature; and how true this is! President Brigham Young said, “You cannot find a compass on the earth, that points, so directly, as the Gospel plan of salvation. […]