It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance....
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The mortal experience ... is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking lifes course for credit and there are no summers off not even semester breaks.Neal A. Maxwell
Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.
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Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.
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Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing 'things as they really are.' (Jacob 413)
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When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies The great armistices made by military men of the peacemaking of women in home and in neighborhoods Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.
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These transcending truths restructure our understanding of ourselves and of the universe and bring within our view resplendent reality. To be seen only by those who have eyes to see, these flakes of fire are embedded in the holy scriptures. There these tr.
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