Browsing Quotes By Truman Madsen
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Christ is against selfishness and sin—not because He is the giant spoilsport, but the other way around. He is against sin and selfishness because He is against despondency and melancholy and morbidity. He is against the shrinking of our capacity for fulfillment.
Speaker: Truman MadsenSource: "The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength," BYU, 21 November 2000Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 8:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Put negatively, if you seek your own immediate gratification and ignore, neglect, or, worse, exploit others, you will not find joy. You will find a chimera. And if you persist, you will find misery. You cannot find joy that way any more than you can jump off your own shadow.
(Chimera: A fanciful mental illusion or fabrication.)Speaker: Truman MadsenSource: "The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength," BYU, 21 November 2000Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 8:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We all know that the Spirit brings joy. The revelation to me is that joy brings the Spirit. When we are happy, the Spirit flows more freely—otherwise, it does not.
Speaker: Truman MadsenSource: "The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength," BYU, 21 November 2000Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 8:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!