Browsing Quotes With Tag: obedience (70)
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The missionary is surrounded by a very powerful, cultural, ‘law of Moses,’ as it were; that is, an external set of expectations, rules, and disciplines. These serve as the ancient law of Moses did – as a schoolmaster to bring the missionaries to Christ or to a higher law, so that they transcend the law of Moses and move into the law of Christ, where they are motivated by love, guided by correct principles, directed by the Spirit.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Negligence in small things leads both to and from negligence in large things.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In the narrow sense, activity in the Church is an occasional thing – basically meaning attending meetings and living certain well-defined and minimal laws such as tithing and the Word of Wisdom…It’s fairly easy to attend church meetings and yet be mentally and emotionally elsewhere. As they run from meeting to meeting or interview to interview, such Mormons are often characterized as poor Christians, bad neighbors, and insensitive to pressing human needs.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The adversary would love to have us engaged with him, to fight him on his own territory. He would rather have us be angry toward him than ignore him and be involved in our own work on the Lord’s territory. If he can engage us, he can win. But if we have nothing to do with him, there is no way in which he can win. He is a parasite.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed; and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities, the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We and God have business with each other; and in opening ourselves to His influence, our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The Prophet never asserted that he was the last of all prophets nor did he claim to have said all there was to say. Submission to God’s will is not to be a robot, incapable of choice and thus of sin. Submission can include – does include – utter responsibility for the fashion in which I, and each of us, shape the universe. It is ours to turn into a heavenly garden… or to rend and destroy.”
Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 11:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He cannot ‘tempt’ to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased with their stumbles… Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The attitude which you want to guard against is that in which temporal affairs are treated primarily as material for obedience. Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Through faith and obedience, the validity of gospel doctrine can be etched upon our hearts.
Speaker: Kenneth JohnsonPosted: 13 Jul 2008 at 9:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!