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37 Cards in this Set
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Maxwell on translating doctrine?
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...discipleship requires all of us to translate doctrines, covenants, ordinances, and teachings into improved personal behavior.
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McConkie on False Prophets?
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What are false prophets? They are teachers and preachers who profess to speak for the Lord when, in fact, they have received no such appointment. They are ministers of religion who have not been called of God as was Aaron.
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President Kimball on service?
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My life is like my shoes - to be worn out in service.
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Mawell on sincerely striving to follow Jesus?
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Sincerely striving to follow Jesus will try our faith and our patience - sometimes sorely.
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John T. Lund on not abandoning what you know?
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Never abandon what you know because of what you don't know.
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Maxwell on the handcarts?
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...though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements, those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time of challenges and who overcome will one day be praised for their stamina by those who pulled the handcarts.
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Spencer W. Kimball on the Arizona desert?
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As a boy I saw how all, young and old, worked and worked hard. We knew that we were taming the Arizona desert. But had I been wiser then, I would have realized that we were taming ourselves, too. Honest toil in subduing sagebrush, taming deserts, channeling rivers, helps to take the wildness out of man's environment but also out of him.
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Maxwell on consequences?
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Part of living consists of learning personally and vicariously, what actions produce what consequences.
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Maxwell on daily improvement?
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...calisthencis of daily improvement and not just the rhetoric of eternal progression.
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Maxwell on fads and/or political correctness?
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Crowds cannot make rigth what God had declared wrong.
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Maxwell on "ample provision"?
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Thus, acknowledging God’s hand includes, in the words of the Prophet Joseph, trusting that God has made “ample provision“ beforehand to achieve all His purposes, including his purposes in our lives.
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Maxwell on when blessings won't come?
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God will not bless us in ways taht will interfere with our individual development needs.
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C.S. Lewis on no neutral ground?
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Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern. [That is because] there is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.
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McConkie on the kingdom of God being a mystery?
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It may be a mystery to the carnal mind, but it is plain and clear and sweet to those who are born of the Spirit so as to be able to see the kingdom of God.
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Maxwell on the daily demension of discipleship?
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It is often the daily dimension of discipleship that is so difficult. We may rise to a crisis but fail amid routine.
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McConkie on what a testimony is?
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A testimony of the gospel is the sure knowledge, received by revelation from the Holy Ghost, of the divinity of this great latter-day work.
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McConkie's last testimony?
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I am one of his witnesses, and in a coming day I shall feel the nail marks in his hands and in his feet and shall wet his feet with my tears. But I shall not know any better then than I know now that he is God's Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer.
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McConkie on former apostles and prophets?
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The words of former prophets and apostles "are now mine, for the Holy Spirit of God has borne witness to me that they are true, and it is now as though the Lord had revealed them to me in the first place.
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Brigham Young on how to increase in knowledge?
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How to expand in knowledge..."Let you whole soul-affections, actions, wishes, desires, every effort and motive and every hour's labor you perform be with a single eye to the building up the Zion of God and the earth."
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Maxwell on why so littel is getting done?
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The reason, frankly, brethren, taht so little is happening is that so little is being tried. (April 1982)
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Nibley on the man who finds he has a terminal illness?
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Abruptly he ceases to care particularly whether anybody thinks he is good, able, smart, likable fellow or not; after all, he not trying to sell anybody anything any more.
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Widstoe on the business of man?
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It is the business of man to find the spiritual meaning of earthly things...No man is quite so happy...as he who backs all his labors by such a spiritual interpretation and understanding of the acts of life.
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Monson on the greatest single lesson we can?
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...the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.
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Edward George Bulwer on suceeding above your fellows?
(19th Century novelist) |
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who, early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
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Maxwell on mortality being hard?
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Mortality has been described as being like working a vineyard - never as a day at a carnival.
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Brigham Young on courage?
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Never allow your courage to fail you; man's greatest works have been done by men of patience, perseverance, and a determined will which would acknowledge no defeat, rather than by those gifted with a natural ability which made success easy but who lacked the tenaciousness of purpose.
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Maxwell on God's teachings and tutoring never being finished?
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In this mortal school we have "customized curricula in which the teaching and tutoring are never finished-until the last bell has rung.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin explaining how David O. McKay's testimony came?
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The answer to his prayers did come, but not until years later, when he was serving as a missionary. Why was the answer to his prayer so long delayed? President McKay believed that this spiritual manifestation "came as a natural sequence to the performance of duty"
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Maxwell on the unmeek?
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The unmeek have a greater sense of deprivation because they have had higher expectations of life, whereas the meek are content with the things the Lord has allotted to them.
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President Hinckley on your truest happiness?
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You will know no greater happiness than that found in your home. You will have no more serious obligation than that which you face in your home. The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage.
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Maxwell on small group settings?
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With some exceptions, the things that need most to be said and most to be heard occur in one to one or small group settings.
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Maxwell on small group settings?
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With some exceptions, the things that need most to be said and most to be heard occur in one to one or small group settings.
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Faust on Happiness?
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Happiness is not given to us in a package that we can just open up and consume. Nobody is ever happy 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Rather than thinking in terms of a day, we perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.
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Harold B. Lee's testimony on the closeness of Christ?
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Jesus Christ lives...he's closer to this Church and appears more often in holy places than any of us realize excepting sometimes to those to whom he makes personal appearance.
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McConkie on increasing our faith?
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Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness....The greater the measure of obedience to God's laws the greater will be the endowment of the [gift of faith].
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Brigham Young on the spread of the gospel and evil?
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It was revealed to me in the commencement of this Church, that the Church would spread, prosper, grow and extend, and that in proportion to the spread of the Gospel among the nations of the earth, so would the power of Satan rise.
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Brigham Young on resisting the devil?
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This is what I call resisting the devil, and he flees from me. I strive to not speak evil, to not feel evil, and if I do, to keep it to myself until it is gone from me, and not let it pass my lips.
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