- Our responsibility is not to please the world but, rather, to do the will of the Lord, and from the beginning the divine will so often has been contrary to the ways of the world.
- When all is said and done, the primary place in building a value system is in the homes of the people.
- Every individual in the world is a child of a mother and a father. Neither can ever escape the consequences of their parenthood. Inherent in the very act of creation is responsibility for the child who is created. none can with impunity run from that responsibility.
- It is not enough simply to provide food and shelter for the physical being. There is an equal responsibility to provide nourishment and direction tot he spirit and the mind and the heart.
- We must provide understanding on the part of every man and woman of the eternal purposes of life, of the obligations of marriage, and of the responsibilities of parenthood. To men who beget children and then abandon them, I say that God will hold you accountable, for these are also His children, whose cries over what you have done reach up to Him. With the obligation to beget goes the responsibility to nurture, to protect, to teach, to guide in righteousness and truth. Yours is the power and the responsibility to preside in a home where there is peace and security, love and harmony.
- I remind mothers everywhere of the sanctity of your calling. No other can adequately take your place. No responsibility is greater, no obligation more binding than that you rear in love and peace and integrity those whom you have brought into the world.
- To both of you, let no bickering cloud the spirit of your home. Set aside your selfishness i the interest of a far greater and eternal cause. Bring up your children in light and truth as the Lord has commanded.
- Who but the prophets of God could have foreseen the miracle of the rapid expansion of the work of the Lord?
- There is a spirit moving upon our people to want to live their lives in harmony with truth, that they may someday respond to an opportunity to serve.
- The Lord needs messengers to match His message. He needs those who are able to wield the mighty and eternal influence that He has placed in their hands.
- To serve the Lord as a full-time missionary is a privilege.
- We must be prepared to march in, legally and appropriately, as the Lord opens those doors.
- Even now I am searching for additional examples of mighty men and mighty women.
- I suggest that all who listen to my voice would benefit by an examination of the lives of those we sustain as general officers of the Church. You will find some important examples among them and come to know hose who have a "perfect heart." What mighty men and women!
- "Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, a keeping all the commandments of God."
- Develop discipline of self so that, more and more, you do not have to decide and redecide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You need only to decide some things once.
- There are some things Latter-day Saints do and other things we just don't do. The sooner you take a stand, the taller you will be!
- To offset the worldly messages that entice us to choose the wrong, the Lord has blessed us with symbols of purity to keep us on the right course to choose the right.
- I promise you that you will receive everlasting happiness if you consistently choose to do what is right.
- "Man is born unto trouble."
- It may be safely assumed that no person has ever lived entirely free of suffering and tribulation. Nor has there ever been a period in human history that did not have its full share of turmoil, ruin, and misery.
- When the pathway of life takes a cruel turn, there is the temptation to think or speak the phrase, "Why me?" Self-incrimination is a common practice, even when we may have had no control over our difficulty. Socrates is quoted as saying: "If we were all to bring our misfortunes into a common store, so that each person should receive an equal share in the distribution, the majority would be glad to take up their own and depart."
- "Weeping my endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."
- Whenever we are inclined to feel burdened down with the blows of life's fight, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome.
- "In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
The Dream.
I was in the basement of the school taking care of the animals in the sick room and new arrivals room. There were classes of young students down there as well and they saw me with my feeding cart and wanted to help but I couldn't let them help me as it wasn't their job. In the sick room I saw a note that one of our hamsters had died, but it didn't say why, but there was also a note for me that was from a secret admirer. I didn't quite know what to think of it, but I couldn't deal with it until I finished my chores though I had to take a slight detour and leave a chihuahua dog with the secretary down there as I went in search.....
Then the unholy tones of daylight pulled me away....
and I became myself again. :)
-S.N.D
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