Magic Touch

“President N. Eldon Tanner has said, “Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don’t want to do it.”
― Stephen R. Covey, Spiritual Roots of Human Relations

“To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.”
― Stephen R. Covey, Spiritual Roots of Human Relations

“Deathbed confession or mere ordinance work do not change man’s nature. This is the reason Satan’s plan to force everyone to be good would have failed, for there could never be a returning to the presence of the Eternal Father without a testing in the face of opposites and temptation and without the continuous choosing of the highest good over lesser goods and over evil. Any other approach to salvation ignores this process of growth and turns it all into some kind of an arbitrary and awesome mystery that, to many, is the hallmark of spirituality.”
― Stephen R. Covey, Spiritual Roots of Human Relations

“if we use how we were taught yesterday to teach our children today, we are not preparing them well for tomorrow.”
― Daniel J. Siegel, Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind