Friday, March 25, 2016

SACRED THINGS ARE HIDDEN

"For his own reasons, the Lord provides answers to some questions, with pieces placed here and there throughout the scriptures.  We are to find them; we are to earn them.  In that way sacred things are hidden from the insincere."

-Elder Boyd K. Packer, “The Mystery of Life,” Ensign, November 1983, p. 17

Thursday, January 8, 2015

LIFE GIVES US ALL THE CHOICE - SPENCER W. KIMBALL

“Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless; or you can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, progressive, useful, colorful, rich. You can soil your record, defile your soul, trample underfoot virtue, honor, and goodness, and thus forfeit an exaltation in the kingdom of God. Or you can be righteous and enjoy the love of the Lord. Your destiny is in your hands and your all-important decisions are your own to make”

-President Spencer W. Kimball. The Miracle of Forgiveness [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1969], p. 235).

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

RIGHTEOUS CHARACTER - ELDER RICHARD G. SCOTT

"We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day. Righteous character is a precious manifestation of what you are becoming. Righteous character is more valuable than any material object you own, any knowledge you have gained through study, or any goals you have attained no matter how well lauded by mankind. In the next life your righteous character will be evaluated to assess how well you used the privilege of mortality.

Neither Satan nor any other power can destroy or undermine your growing character. Only you could do that through disobedience. A sterling character is converted into worthless ashes when eroded by deceit or transgression.

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Such choices are made with trust in things that are believed and when acted upon are confirmed."

-Elder Richard G. Scott. "The Transforming Power of Faith and Character." October 2010. 

Saturday, August 20, 2011

PRESIDENT MONSON - BLESSED FAMILY LIFE


“When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on—home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.”

-President Thomas S. Monson, “A Sanctuary from the World,” Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting, Feb. 9, 2008, 29.

Friday, June 3, 2011

JACQUES DERRRIDA - SECRET OF SECRECY

"How can another see into me, into my most secret self, without my being able to see in there myself? And without my being able to see him in me. And if my secret self, that which can be revealed only to the other, to the wholly other, to God if you wish, is a secret that I will never reflect on, that I will never know or experience or possess as my own, then what sense is there in saying that it is my secret, or in saying more generally that a secret belongs, that it is proper to or belongs to some one, or to some other who remains someone. It's perhaps there that we find the secret of secrecy. Namely, that it is not a matter of knowing and that it is there for no one. A secret doesn't belong, it can never be said to be at home or in its place. The question of the self: who am I not in the sense of who am I but rather who is this I that can say who? What is the- I and what becomes of responsibility once the identity of the I trembles in secret?"

— Jacques Derrida 1930-2004 (The Gift of Death (Religion and Postmodernism Series))