Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to come off conqueror. It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.
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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.Neal A. Maxwell
We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 219.
Neal A. Maxwell
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes scold God because of the abundance of human misery and sufferingwhich, indeed, lies all about us. Such individuals almost dare God to demonstrate His existence by straightening things outand at once But He is a much different kind of Father than that. Surely it is requisite to eternal life that we come to know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent (see John 173).
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It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative indignant without being intelligent impulsive without being insightful.
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Anger should never be an overnight guest.
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Brigham Young observed, 'Man's machinery makes things alike' (JD 9370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.
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