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Browsing Quotes With Tag: becoming-christlike (4)

  • Man . . . was made from different and opposite substances [i.e., dust and spirit] . . . [and] these two things contend against each other in man: so that if the [spirit of man], which has its origin from God, gains the mastery, it is immortal, and lives in perpetual light; if, on the other hand, the body shall overpower the [spirit], and subject it to its dominion, it is in everlasting darkness and death . . . [and will subject] them to everlasting punishment.

    Speaker: Lactantius, "The Divine Institutes" 2:13, in Roberts and Donaldson (1994), 7:61
    Source: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 46
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    Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:13 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
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    Tags: becoming-christlike, religious

  • The place appointed for Adam’s residence was a garden, not an ivory house nor a palace overlaid with gold, but a garden . . . Adam too was born into humble circumstances. This is a clarion call to the Saints to live lives of simplicity rather than excess, humility rather than extravagance.

    Speaker: Alonzo L. Gaskill
    Source: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 53-54
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    Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:09 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
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    Tags: becoming-christlike, humility, religious
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  • The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we “give” . . . are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God’s will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!”

    Speaker: Elder Neal A. Maxwell
    Source: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 61
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    Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:06 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
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  • The sin is not in wishing to become like God. The sin is in attempting to do so without God.

    Speaker: Alonzo L. Gaskill
    Source: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 68-69
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    Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 8:59 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
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    Tags: becoming-christlike