- When we raise our hands to sustain the prophet, it is important for each of us to have a personal testimony that God lives and that Jesus is the Christ, who leads his Church today through the prophet he has chosen.
- Our testimony comes by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost. The testimony received and carried within us enables us to hold a steady course in times of prosperity and to overcome doubt and fear in times of adversity.
- A testimony is the spirit of prophecy. It is a personal revelation from God, revealing the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. A testimony comes through the Holy Ghost; it makes a deep and lasting impression on the soul.
- Individual testimonies are the foundation and strength of the Church. Our testimony provides a guiding light that leads to a commitment which directs our conduct and our way of life. Our testimony is true north on a spiritual compass. It is a moving force that cannot be seen but can truly be felt. It is a burning within that tells us what is right. It is when "your heart tells you things your mind doesn't know."
- A testimony is a shield of faith.
- Our testimony is a measurement of our faith. Faith is a testimony; testimony is faith. Having a strong testimony allows us to help others in their search for truth. Our testimony is a gift from God. It should be shared.
- Fourteen men have presided over The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in this dispensation.
- Prayer is answered 'sometime, somewhere.'
- Generally, testimony emerges over time and through life's experiences. We can compare testimony to the process of watching a photograph develop. Powerful impressions of the Spirit come like flashes of light on receptive photographic film. Like the chemicals needed to develop the picture, certain spiritual conditions and experiences are needed in our lives for our personal testimony to develop into a certain truth and knowledge. And like a photograph, a testimony, if not carefully preserved, will fade with time.
- Search the scriptures. Continue to pray. The scriptures are filled with the testimonies of those who have gone before. Even they, though long dead, can reach your heart and ring peace to your mind and direction to your life.
- Live our testimony.
- Be willing to endure the test of time. Do not think that it is easy to maintain a testimony. Others will test you.
- In our day, those blessed with a testimony of the truth have a shield of faith that will protect them from the fiery darts of the adversary at the hands of critics and detractors. We should not let others determine our faithfulness and affect our testimony and ultimately our eternal salvation.
- A testimony must be constantly nourished and defended, or it will waste away.
- Parents have the inalienable right and the responsibility to educate their children. no inappropriate outsider should be allowed to dictate our family's values nor what our children are being taught.
- We must make of our homes fortresses to protect our families against the constant attacks of the adversary.
- I am not suggesting that we isolate ourselves from the world by digging deep moats or construction barriers several meters high around our homes, but rather that in our family councils, under the influence of the Spirit, we establish the activities, entertainment, books, friendships, rules, and habits that will constitute our fortresses.
- We must teach our children to avoid compromising themselves with inappropriate fashions and negative practices of the world by simply saying no when confronted with them.
- In other words, once a city was fortified, a constant effort was made to maintain the fortress so that it could serve its purpose.
- I have found the gospel to be very simple but also very profound. Once we have sufficient faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that we believe he has paid for our sins, then we will repent. And no one truly repents until they believe in Christ.
- You see, there is a difference between topping sinning and repentance. in the first instance we are still guilty; in the second we are free of the sin and guilt.
- Again, in the first instance, we are still in our sins, but in the second instance, we are free from our sins.
- We must be nice. If we're not nice, i don't think we're going to make it.
- "Unless you are in the service of your fellow beings you are not in the service of your God."
- Being successful meant being faithful in following the Lord's commandments.
- There have always been strident sounds and discordant voices.
- "Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
- "If we don't change direction, we will arrive at where we are going."
- We would do well, then, while ours is still the strongest influence in their lives, to give them a sure set of standards and a firm foundation of safe and sound principles.
- Unfortunately we don't always heed the clear warnings of our prophets. We coast complacently along until calamity strikes, and then we panic.
- The Church therefore proceeds in an orderly and planned fashion. Efforts are focused to create centers of strength. The goal is to establish deep pools of leadership that will become the foundation for future Church expansion.
- The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing.
- I will strive to live worthy of this trust and serve to the full measure of my ability.
- Never in her entire life has she sought her own reward or pursued a selfish motive.
- "You lean on us. Lean on us out here."
- "The temple is the only place I have ever been where I felt truly whole. I have always felt I was a daughter of God, but only in the temple did I understand what that truly meant."
- The triad of faith, hope, and charity, which brings us to Christ, has strong and converging linkage: faith is in the Lord Jesus Christ, hope is in His atonement, and charity is the "pure love of Christ"!
- Faith and hope are constantly interactive, and may not always be precisely distinguished or sequenced.
- Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!
- Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine. It is composed, not giddy, eager without being naive, and pleasantly steady without being smug. Hope is realistic anticipation taking the form of determination--a determination not merely to survive but to "endure ... well" to the end.
- While weak hope leaves us at the mercy of our moods and events, "brightness of hope: produces illuminated individuals.
- Sometimes in the deepest darkness there is no external light--only an inner light to guide and to reassure.
- Hope helps us to walk by faith, not by sight. This can actually be safer. When unaided spiritually, natural sight often shrinks from the odds. It is immobilized by improbabilities. Mauled by his moods and intimidated by his fears, the natural man overreacts to, while hope overrides, the disappointments of the day.
- Genuine hope is urgently needed in order to be more loving even as the love of many waxes cold; more merciful, even when misunderstood or misrepresented; more holy, even as the world ripens in iniquity; more courteous and patient in a coarsening and curt world; and more full of heartfelt hope, even when other men's hearts fail them. Whatever our particular furrow, we are to "plow in hope," without looking back or letting yesterday hold tomorrow hostage.
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
The Dream
I was at work, trying to help with a customer, but I got logged out of my register...and I tried multiple times to put in my user name and pass code, but it wouldn't accept it. Time and time again I tried it, and the customer was getting frustrated with me. I finally got a manager to come over, and I still was having trouble.
Then the unholy tones of daylight pulled me away....
and I became myself again. :)
-S.N.D
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