Showing posts with label peacemakers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peacemakers. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Now is the time to change

 "If you are serious about helping to gather Israel and about building relationships that will last throughout the eternities, now is the time to lay aside bitterness. Now is the time to cease insisting that it is your way or no way. Now is the time to stop doing things that make others walk on eggshells for fear of upsetting you. Now is the time to bury your weapons of war. If your verbal arsenal is filled with insults and accusations, now is the time to put them away. You will arise as a spiritually strong man or woman of Christ."

- President Russell M. Nelson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Peacemakers Needed," General Conference, April 2023

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

“Marriage partners must be quick to forgive. If we will sue for peace, taking the initiative in settling differences—if we forgive and forget with all our hearts … if we forgive all real or fancied offenses before we ask forgiveness for our own sins—if we pay our own debts, large or small, before we press our debtors—if we manage to clear our own eyes of the blinding beams before we magnify the motes in the eyes of others—what a glorious world this would be! Divorce would be reduced to a minimum; courts would be freed from disgusting routines;family life would be heavenly; the building of the kingdom would go forward at an accelerated pace; and the peace which passeth understanding would bring to us all a joy and happiness which has hardly ‘entered into the heart of man.’”

- Spencer W. Kimball, as quoted in

What Happily Married Couples Do

By Douglas Brinley Ensign, January 2012, original source: 
The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, ed. Edward L. Kimball (1982), 242.