Most of us profess to love God. The challenge, I have observed, is loving our neighbor. The term neighbor includes family, people with whom we work, those whom we see in geographical proximity to our home and at church, and even the enemy, though we do not condone what the latter does. If we do […]
We can best express our gratitude for this glorious fulness by developing a more full love for all of humankind. And why not, for the Restoration tells us who our neighbors really are! Let our gratitude likewise be expressed by striving to become, attribute by attribute, more and more as Jesus is (see 3 Ne. […]
The best ways for us to see the spiritual purposes of the Church are to live the true, pure, and simple teachings of Christ and also to apply the Savior’s two great commandments: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart. … Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”10 Obedience to those […]
The other day, as I overhead one neighbor criticizing another, I was reminded of these lines: “Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folks we meet would say: ‘I know something good about you,’ And then treat us that way?” – N. Eldon Tanner, “Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged,” Ensign (CR) May […]