- Like the leprosy of yesteryear are the plague of today. They linger; they debilitate; they destroy. They are to be found everywhere. Their pervasiveness knows no boundaries. We know them as selfishness, greed, indulgence, cruelty, and crime, to identify but a few. Surfeited with their poison, we tend to criticize, to complain, to blame, and, slowly but surely, to abandon the positives and adopt the negatives of life.
- A popular refrain from the 1940s captured the thought: Accentuate the positive; Eliminate the negative. Latch on to the affirmative; Don't mess with Mr. In-between.
- We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts and attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.
- "God could not be everywhere, and so He gave us mothers."
- Father, like Mother, is ever willing to sacrifice his own comfort for that of his children.
- The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of pupils; the teacher also influences their attitudes toward their future and themselves. If the teacher loves the students and has high expectations of them, their self-confidence will grow, their capabilities will develop, and their future will be assured. A citation to such a teacher could well read: "She created in her room an atmosphere where warmth and acceptance weave their magic spell; where growth and learning, the soaring of the imagination, an the spirit of the young are assured."
- "The past is behind; learn from it."
- The future is ahead and we are to prepare for it.
- "You can do it."
- He taught truth, He inspired effort. He prompted love.
- She never raised her voice. Somehow rudeness and boisterousness were incompatible with the beauty of her lessons. She taught us that the present is here and that we must live in it.
- This simple act of kindness welded us together as one. We learned through our own experience that indeed it is more blessed to give than to receive.
- Let us ever have an attitude of gratitude for our teachers.
- Our most cherished friend is our partner in marriage.
- True friends put up with our idiosyncrasies. They have a profound influence in our lives.
- "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
- "If we would secure and cultivate the love of others, we must love others, even our enemies was well as friends. ... Christians should cease wrangling and contending with each other, and cultivate the principle of union and friendship in their midst."
- When all else fails, charity--Christ's love--will not fail. It is the greatest of all divine attributes.
- All were recipients of his love. All were "privileged the one like unto the other, and none [were] forbidden."
- "Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world.
- "In the gift of his Son hat God prepared a more excellent way."
- Those who are filled with the love of Christ do not seek to force others to do better; they inspire others to do better, indeed inspire them to the pursuit of God.
- Mormon teaches us that there will always be suffering and sorrow in sin, but to repent only because we feel bad or because we have suffered or because we are sorrowful does not show that we understand the goodness of God.
- Might it be well for us to remember to give thanks to our Heavenly Father prior to asking for his help in solving our problems?
- Through expression of prayerful gratitude and thanksgiving, we show our dependence upon a higher source of wisdom and knowledge--God the Father and his Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
- "Oh, Robert, don't ever forget or take for granted the privilege it is to know and to serve with Apostles of the Lord."
- My greatest asset was my dear wife.
- Ingratitude is the attitude of being unaware or not recognizing when someone has assisted us or helped us or, even worse, when we know we have been helped and have not given thanks privately or publicly.
- :For the Spirit of the Lord will not always strive with man. And when the Spirit ceaseth to strive with man then cometh speedy destruction."
- God grant that we will come to our senses and protect our moral environment from this mist of darkness which deepens day by day. The fate of all humanity hangs precariously in the balance.
- In the battle of life, the adversary takes enormous numbers of prisoners, and many who know of no way to escape and are pressed into his service. Every soul confined to a concentration camp of sin and guilt has a key to the gate. The adversary cannot hold them if they know how to use it. The key is labeled Repentance. The twin principles of repentance and forgiveness exceed in strength the awesome power of the adversary.
- Though some of the sheep may wander, the eye of the Shepherd is upon them, and sooner or later they will feel the tentacles of Divine Providence reaching out after them and drawing them back to the fold.
- Hope on, trust on, till you see the salvation of God.
- The scriptures speak in general terms, leaving us free to apply the principles of the gospel to meet the infinite variety of life. But when they say "thou shall not," we had better pay attention.
- Regardless of how lofty and moral the "pro-choice" argument sounds, it is badly flawed. With the same logic one could argue that all traffic signs and barriers which keep the careless from danger should be pulled down on the theory that each individual must be free to choose how close to the edge he will go.
- Interesting how one virtue, when given exaggerated or fanatical emphasis, can be used to batter down another, with freedom, a virtue, invoked to protect vice. Those determined to transgress see any regulation of their life-style as interfering with their agency and seek to have their actions condoned by making them legal.
- The deliberate pollution of the fountain of life now clouds our moral environment. The gift of mortal life and the capacity to kindle others lives is a supernal blessing. Its worth is incalculable!
- I have great confidence in our young people as a whole. I regard you as the finest generation in the history of the Church. I compliment you, and I have in my heart a great feeling of love and respect and appreciation for you.
- If we deny the one sure source of moral truth, then from whence will it come?
- Notwithstanding all of the problems that we have, this, I believe, is the greatest age in the history of the world.
- Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. i hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history.
- Of course you are peculiar. If the world continues its present trend, and if you walk in obedience to the doctrines and principles of this church, you may become even more peculiar in the eyes of others.
- And so I invite you, every one of you within the sound of my voice, to think for a moment upon why you are here under the divine plan of your Father in Heaven and of your tremendous potential to do good during the life that He has given you.
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Happy 777th Post!! ^^;;
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