In racing marathons, one does not see the dropouts make fun of those who continue failed runners actually cheer on those who continue the race, wishing they were still in it. Not so with the marathon of discipleship in which some dropouts then make fun of the spiritual enterprise of which they were so recently a part.
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God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.Neal A. Maxwell
When we dont like to face up to hard facts, we use soft words. We do not speak about killing a baby within the womb, but about 'termination of potential life.' Words are often multiplied to try to cover dark deeds.
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Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.
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Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals and we should be responsive and grateful. But what of Him who gave us mortal life itself, who will ere long give us all immortality, and who proffers to the faithful the greatest gift of all, eternal life We are poor bookkeepers, indeed.
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In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
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The submissive will make it through to that final scene, for the word of God will lead the man and woman of Christ 'in a straight and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery ... and land their souls ... at the right hand of God in the kingdom, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers' (Helaman 330) 'who have been ever since the world began ... to go no more out.' (Alma 725)
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