"Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our Church callings, and in our livelihood. Love is the healing balm that repairs rifts in personal and family relationships. It is the bond that unites families, communities, and nations. Love is the power that initiates friendship, tolerance, civility, and respect. It is the source that overcomes divisiveness and hate. Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk."
--Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "The Love of God", Ensign, Nov 2009, 21–24
"... a fim de que se chamem CARVALHOS de justiça, plantados pelo SENHOR para a sua glória." (Isaías 61:3)
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Friday, February 5, 2010
Friday, September 11, 2009
Forgiveness
"Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?"
--Marion D. Hanks, "Forgiveness The Ultimate Form of Love", Ensign, Jan. 1974, 20
--Marion D. Hanks, "Forgiveness The Ultimate Form of Love", Ensign, Jan. 1974, 20
Friday, August 21, 2009
Peace
"We are a warlike people, easily distracted from our assignment of preparing for the coming of the Lord.. When enemies rise up, we commit vast resources to the fabrication of gods of stone and steel –ships, planes, missiles, fortifications – and depend on them for protection and deliverance. When threatened, we become antienemy instead of pro-kingdom of God; we train a man in the art of war and call him a patriot, thus, in the manner of Satan's counterfeit of true patriotism, perverting the Savior's teaching: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; “That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.” (Matthew 5:44-45.)
--President Spencer W. Kimball in a talk 1976 entitled “The False God's We Worship”.
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