General Conference is wonderful. I love hearing the words of our living prophet and our apostles and other leaders. There is always something just for me in their messages. Here are just a few of the wonderful thoughts shared on Saturday. I’m sure there will be more to come. If you’d like to share, you’ll… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Latter-day Prophets
President Monson Blogs–How Cool is This?
I don’t know if you’ve seen this yet, but it’s worth a few minutes to read. Elizabeth Tenety, the On Faith columnist from the Washington Post, invited religious leaders from around the world to share their thoughts about this 10th anniversary of 9/11. One of the respondents who blogged for her was President Thomas S.… Continue Reading
Learning to Trust
“This life is an experience in profound trust–trust in Jesus Christ, trust in His teachings, trust in our capacity as led by the Holy Spirit to obey those teachings for happiness now and for a purposeful, supremely happy eternal existence. To trust means to obey willingly without knowing the end from the beginning (see Prov. 3:5-7). To produce fruit,… Continue Reading
It’s a New Year… time for New Goals!
Last year we spent time going through things we would need emotionally, and spiritually as well as physically to help us cope and be prepared. I hope and pray that some of the things I have shared have been helpful even if it was to just get you thinking of what you could do for… Continue Reading
quotable quotes: meekness
Some of the company thought I was not a very meek Prophet; so I told them: ‘I am meek and lowly in heart,’ (quoting Matt 11:29) and will personify Jesus for a moment, to illustrate the principle, and cried out with a loud voice, ‘Woe unto you, ye doctors; woe unto you, ye lawyers; woe… Continue Reading
quotable quotes: company of conscience
Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company we like and keep, so nothing foretells futurity like the thoughts over which we brood. … To have the approval of your conscience when you are alone with your thoughts is like being… Continue Reading
quotable quotes: happiness
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. ~Pres. Joseph Smith Jr. [Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, ed. Joseph Fielding Smith (1970), 255–256]… Continue Reading
Latter-day Prophets: George Albert Smith
Brief Biography: George Albert Smith was born on April 4, 1870, in Salt Lake City. His father, John Henry Smith, and grandfather, George A. Smith, had both been counselors to Church Presidents. While employed in the Federal Land Office for Utah, he was called at the age of 33 to the Quorum of the Twelve… Continue Reading
quotable quotes: religious certainty
Certitude is certainty. It is conviction. . . Without certitude on the parts of believers, a religious cause becomes soft, without muscle, without the driving force that would broaden its influence and capture the hearts and affections of men and women. Theology may be argued over, but personal testimony, coupled with performance, cannot be refuted.… Continue Reading
quotable quotes: conference & covenants
The Modern Molly Mormon theme for October is Make & Keep Sacred Covenants. What are covenants? A covenant is a promise made between two parties, such that each party makes a promise-or series of promises-to the other. Covenants in the religious sense are set up so that “God fixes the terms, which man accepts.”[Bible Dictionary:… Continue Reading