If I had gone to Ed Week, I probably would have arrived home a little while ago. I'm so glad I wasn't cramped up in the car today.
Here are the good parts of 2007:
Paul R. Warner
I must realize that my personality limitations do not make me a bad person.
A healthy person leans to their strengths, an unhealthy leans to their weaknesses.
Harold B. Lee--some leaders are called to test and some are called to lead.
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
He is no fool which gives up that which he cannot keep. (we will all die, so give our lives to the Lord)
Brad R. Wilcox
There is repentance. But just as real as the atonement is, is the pain that accompanies repentance.
Sex is like an apple--before we are married it belongs to God. When we marry, He gives it to us. If we use it outside of marriage, we are stealing.
Having an entrance requirement to the temple doesn't make it a secret...then every university is a secret cult since they have entrance requirements)
See the temple as an ark--our salvation depends upon it.
Scott C. Marsh
Read Alma 32-35 like it's a $500 book on how to receive prosperity.
Steven C. Harper
To consecrate does not necessarily mean to give away, but to sanctify, to devote service to God.
If we are ignorant of the truth, it is easy to believe false doctrine.
I'm to make the most of myself so that my offering is more.
Robert L. Millet
Elder Dallin H. Oaks--The judgment is an acknowledgment of the final effects of our acts and thoughts--what we have become.
Don't judge--don't attribute motivation to others.
If we become conscious of our own righteousness, we are giving ourselves our own reward.
Elder Richard G. Scott
Use consistently and this will be of most benefit:
Throughout the remainder of my life, I will seek to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn and will do them.
We labor to recognize the Spirit. If it were ours just for the asking, we would become weak.
Easy things never produce much beneficial fruit.
We will never be prompted to do something we cannot do--it may be difficult, but we can do it.
Satan distracts us with acceptable things to keep us from the essential. Give the cream of your efforts to the essential.
Forced obedience yields no enduring fruit. Entreat, prompt, encourage--it's how They deal with us.
Pres. Spencer W. Kimball--A testimony is not an exhortation; a testimony is not a sermon (none of you are there to exhort the rest); it is not a travelogue. You are there to bear your own witness....We'd like to know how you feel.... Just tell how you feel inside. That is the testimony. The moment you begin preaching to others, your testimony has ended. Just tell us how you feel, what your mind and heart and every fiber of your body tells you.
Alonzo L. Gaskill
Elder Neal A. Maxwell--Eden was not an ideal place. One couldn't walk by faith--it was pointless.
The scriptures (revelation) are the seed bed of revelation (more scripture). As you reflect again and again, the Spirit works on you.
The better the heart and the better the mind, the better the revelation. Puny preparation precedes puny revelation.
The spirit of revelation likes ordinances--baptism, sacrament, temple--so, participate in those so it increases your opportunities for revelation.
You get what you have prepared yourself to receive.
Not to write down your personal revelations is to lose them and treat them lightly.
Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley--Don't be a pickle-sucker.
Don't go near the forbidden tree if you don't want to eat from it.
Sin is not wishing to become like God but wishing to be your own god.
Marianna E. Richardson
Alfred Edersheim--Trials are God's veiled angels.
--What we call disappointments are not, only God's appointments.
--The only profitable study of scripture: to realize their application.
Steven A. Tersigni
As we acquire His Spirit, we acquire His attributes...which is a better way to do it rather than having a goal to work on an attribute/month.
How many people even ask-Father, what would you have me do that I'm not currently doing?
Joseph F. McConkie
We don't gain exaltation by mastery of laws. Law is not God's partner, but His servant.
If you reject light, you must accept darkness in its place. There is no neutral ground in eternal things.
Kevin R. Miller
Remember telling is not teaching and told is not taught.
Mark D. Ogletree
Ezra Taft Benson--Much of the rock music is purposely designed to push immorality.
Randall Wright--If you fight any battle, fight the music one.
--It seems very strange that we place dead-bolt locks on our doors to prevent evil people from entering into our sacred homes and then we turn around and invite the same type of people in through television programming.
--Most success in life is found just by showing up and sticking to the task at hand.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
When a Nephi stands up to pressure, there is always a Sam that will follow.
Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley--Open your homes to the friends of your children. If you find they have big appetites, close your eyes and let them eat. Make your children's friends your friend.
Brother Lynn D. Johnson
Bruce Williams--I always celebrate when something bad happens If something good happens, there's no need to celebrate as something good has already happened.
People are the happiest when they are involved in a challenging, stretching activity that they can handle (too much leisure does not bring happiness...or too much stress).
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