{"id":4160,"date":"2024-09-05T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T16:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2024-09-07T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T16:38:29","slug":"compassion-not-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/compassion-not-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion, not Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">Comparing ourselves to others can lead us to make pernicious errors, especially if we conclude that we are more righteous than those who are struggling. Such a comparison is like drowning hopelessly in three meters of water, seeing someone else drowning in four meters of water, judging him a greater sinner, and feeling good about yourself. After all, we are all struggling in our own way. None of us earns salvation. We never can. Jacob, in the Book of Mormon, taught, \u201cRemember, after [we] are reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through the grace of God that [we] are saved.\u201d We all need the Savior\u2019s infinite Atonement, not just part of it. \u2013 <em>Dale G. Renlund, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/2024\/04\/43renlund?lang=eng#p19\">The Powerful, Virtuous Cycle of the Doctrine of Christ<\/a>,\u201d Liahona (CR) May 2024<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparing ourselves to others can lead us to make pernicious errors, especially if we conclude that we are more righteous than those who are struggling. Such a comparison is like drowning hopelessly in three meters of water, seeing someone else drowning in four meters of water, judging him a greater sinner, and feeling good about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[258,116],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-comparisons","tag-compassion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}