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…when the Lord warns of false Christs, he seems to be referring not so much to individuals as to tenets, teachings, and
alternative pathways to happiness.

The greatest preparation we can make today as we anticipate tomorrow is to attend to the small and simple things that come before us each minute an hour of every day.

If you’ve ever acted in an amateur stage company…you’ll know what the days leading up to Halloween were like…at first, rehearsals have a lazy feel. There’s improvisation, joking, horseplay, and a good deal of flirting as sexual polarities are established. If someone flubs a line or misses a cue in those early rehearsals, it’s an occasion for laughter. If an actor shows up fifteen minutes late…

The brain is a storage shed. You put experience in there and it waits for you.

...I didn’t keep office hours. I never believed in them. Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand.

People who overreact tend almost always to be wrong. Colin Cowherd

...I may not have known that you were here, but the Lord knew...

I don’t know why I was directed here today, but our Heavenly Father knows. Let’s kneel in prayer and ask Him why.

...an essential visit must take precedence over a scheduled meeting.

...men may make idols of their wives or children. Not that a man can love his family too much, but he can put them in the wrong place; he can put them before God.

Regarding fasting, “More blessed is he who seeks achievement rather than rescue”.

Blessing presidents, rulers, magistrates and principalities is all to the good but not nearly so relevant to the meeting at hand as the local leaders , teachers, speakers, singers or distressed members of the congregation, all of whom particularly need the blessings of the Lord and are relying upon their common spokesman to so represent them.

...let us be inwardly meek and outwardly natural.

The wise man looks for the challenging, vigorous way. It is the awakening of the Spirit that causes us to rejoice in trials and tribulations, for therein lies the fuel for eternal progression.

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter...

...all images and sensations, if idolatrously mistaken for Joy itself, soon honestly confessed themselves inadequate.

...a journal can be a wonderful tool to help us live our lives on a higher level.

Most repentance does not involve sensational or dramatic changes, but rather is a step-by-step, steady, and consistent movement toward godliness.

M. Russell Ballard taught: “I have heard many well-intentioned Church leaders and teachers instruct congregations to find time for daily scripture study, ‘even if it’s only one or two verses per day.’ Though I understand the point they are trying to teach and applaud the sincerity of that conviction, may I gently suggest...

I’m not happy because I exist in a bubble, sheltered by my fantasies from the harsh realities of the world...My happiness is because I know the truth, and I choose to live according to that knowledge.

...don’t miss the joy...

Having daily access to the Spirit...is better than periodic miracles.

Elder Bruce C. Hafen wrote that eternal life refers not to length of life but to quality of life and “involves the long-term, difficult, gradual development of the capacity to live like Christ.”

“C. S. Lewis longed to be ordinary: as a child, to talk like the other children in school-boy slang instead of the learned vocabulary that was all he knew...”

I recall similar feelings.

When we slip, instead of saying, “We have failed,” let’s try to say, “We have not yet succeeded.”

Sometimes our regretful remorse can almost overpower the song we currently want to sing.

When we stand atop our peaks of pride and are tempted to cry, “I reached this height all by myself,” let us lower our gaze and see the path that has been.l carved out by others.

Learning for conversion is a continual process of knowing, doing, and becoming. Likewise, teaching for conversion requires key doctrine, invitations to action, and promised blessings.

We fail to realize that because of the older brother’s lack of charity in God’s eyes, he, too, was a prodigal who was in danger of losing his inheritance.