My New Testament class is amazing. The teacher is so straightforward about everything and teaches the doctrine as it was written. Most of all I love the quotes that he shares during each class period. Today was an especially good day for quotes, so I thought I share a few. They may not relate, but I still found each to be quite profound.
"President Kimball taught me an unforgettable lesson. He pulled my coattail and said, 'It has always troubled me what the adversary does using the name of our Savior.' He then said, 'Robert, the adversary can never have joy unless you and I sin.' As I contemplated this comment and studied the scriptures, I began to understand what President Kimball may have meant....It is our sins that make the devil laugh, our sorrow that brings him counterfeit joy." - Robert D. Hales Ensign, May 2006
"When Satan wants to disrupt the work of the Lord, he doesn't poison the world's peanut butter supply, thus bringing the Church's missionary system to its collective knees. He doesn't send a plague of laryngitis to afflict the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He doesn't legislate against green Jell-O or casseroles. When Satan truly wants to disrupt the work of the Lord, he attempts to confuse gender and attacks God's plan for His spirit children. He works to drive a wedge of disharmony between a father and a mother. He entices children to be disobedient to their parents. He makes family home evening and family prayer inconvenient. He suggests family scripture study is impractical and not doable. That's all it takes, because Satan knows that the surest and most effective way to disrupt the Lord's work is to diminish the effectiveness of the family and the sanctity of the home." - M. Russell Ballard Ensign, Nov 2003
"From the moment of birth into mortality to the time we are married in the temple, everything we have in the whole gospel system is to prepare and qualify us to enter that holy order of matrimony which makes us husband and wife in this life and in the world to come. Then from the moment we are sealed together by the power and authority of the holy priesthood-the power to bind on earth and have it sealed eternally in the heavens-from that moment everything connected with revealed religion is designed to help us keep the terms and conditions of our marriage covenant, so that this covenant will have efficacy, virtue, and force in the life to come." - Bruce R. McConkie Improvement Era, June 1970
When talking about "just cause" for divorce, James E. Faust said, "In my opinion, ‘just cause’ should be nothing less serious than a prolonged and apparently irredeemable relationship which is destructive of a person’s dignity as a human being. At the same time, I have strong feelings about what is not provocation for breaking the sacred covenants of marriage. Surely it is not simply ‘mental distress’ or ‘personality differences’ or having ‘grown apart’ or having ‘fallen out of love.’ This is especially so where there are children." - James E. Faust Conference Report 1993, p 46
I know these quotes are a bit scattered, but I liked each of them for different reasons. Now seeing how this is a blog I'm sure you would expect me to run through each of my reasons for liking these quotes, ...........but that's not going to happen this time. This time, I simply wished to share the quotes themselves.
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