{"id":502,"date":"2020-02-23T03:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=502"},"modified":"2020-02-24T03:51:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T03:51:03","slug":"credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As God works through us, the adversary may tempt us to take credit for any accomplishments. However, we can emulate the Savior\u2019s humility by deflecting personal praise and glorifying the Father (see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/scriptures\/nt\/matt\/5.16?lang=eng#p16\">Matthew 5:16<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/scriptures\/pgp\/moses\/4.2?lang=eng#p2\">Moses 4:2<\/a>). When a reporter tried to recognize Mother Teresa for her life\u2019s mission to help the poor, she retorted: \u201cIt\u2019s [God\u2019s] work. I am like a \u2026 pencil in his hand. \u2026 He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it. The pencil has only to be allowed to be used.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/#note10\"><sup>10<\/sup><\/a> \u2013 <em>John C. Pingree Jr., \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/2017\/10\/i-have-a-work-for-thee?lang=eng\">I Have a Work for Thee<\/a>,\u201d Ensign (CR) November 2017<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As God works through us, the adversary may tempt us to take credit for any accomplishments. However, we can emulate the Savior\u2019s humility by deflecting personal praise and glorifying the Father (see\u00a0Matthew 5:16;\u00a0Moses 4:2). When a reporter tried to recognize Mother Teresa for her life\u2019s mission to help the poor, she retorted: \u201cIt\u2019s [God\u2019s] work. [&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":[271,5],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-credit","tag-humility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","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=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}