Sunday, August 11, 2024

We should not make it too expensive emotionally for others to try to communicate with us

"We ought to build a climate around us in which we are, in all situations, open to the comments of others. We should not make it too expensive emotionally for others to try to communicate with us. If it is too hard to do so, people will just pull back. If we are too well protected and too well defended, they are not going to extend themselves overmuch in an effort to communicate with us. It is difficult to say which is most dangerous—the mote in one's eye or the moat around his "castle" that keeps out the needed communications, involving correction, counsel, or commendation."

⁠— Neal A. Maxwell, as heard quoted on the Follow Him podcast, https://podscripts.co/podcasts/follow-him-a-come-follow-me-podcast/alma-43-52-part-2-david-boren-august-12-18-come-follow-me , and found more fully at https://qtmp.com/quote/9P3 on 11 Aug 2024

Thursday, May 16, 2024

 "The restored gospel of Jesus Christ is, first, foremost, and forever, the source of lasting happiness, true peace, and joy for everyone in these latter days."

- President Jeffrey R. Holland, Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, "The Savior of All, a Gospel for All," Liahona, March 2024

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2024/03/03-the-savior-of-all-a-gospel-for-all?lang=eng


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

Receiving a testimony line upon line

“When I as a boy first started out in the ministry, I would frequently go out and ask the Lord to show me some marvelous thing, in order that I might receive a testimony. But the Lord withheld marvels from me, and showed me the truth, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, until he made me to know the truth from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, and until doubt and fear had been absolutely purged from me. He did not have to send an angel from the heavens to do this, nor did he have to speak with the trump of an archangel. By the whisperings of the still small voice of the Spirit of the living God, he gave to me the testimony I possess. And by this principle and power he will give to all the children of men a knowledge of the truth that will stay with them.”

- Joseph F. Smith, as quoted in https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2024/04/come-follow-me/20-receiving-revelation-until-our-faith-in-the-lord-becomes-unshaken?lang=eng 

The Savior holds our children blameless for our parental mistakes

 "As any parent can testify, the pain associated with our mistakes is not simply the fear of our own punishment but the fear that we may have limited our children’s joy or in some way hindered them from seeing and understanding the truth. The glorious promise of the Savior’s atoning sacrifice is that as far as our mistakes as parents are concerned, He holds our children blameless and promises healing for them. And even when they have sinned against the light—as we all do—His arm of mercy is outstretched, and He will redeem them if they will but look to Him and live."

- Elder James R. Rasband, Of the Seventy, "Ensuring a Righteous Judgment," General Conference, April 2020

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2020/04/13rasband?lang=eng