Mormon Musings

My spirit is set free.  I thirst no more, I want sleep no more, I hunger no more, I tire no more - I run, I walk, I labor, I go, I come, I do this, I do that - whatever is required of me, nothing like pain or weariness.  I am full of life, I am full of vigor, and I enjoy the presence of my Heavenly Father.  When we pass through the veil, we will view death as one of life's greatest blessings - So nothing is dreaded.  If we could see things as they are (and we shall see and understand them), this dark shadow, a valley of death, is so trifling that we shall turn around and look upon it and think when we have crossed it, 'Why this is the greatest advantage of my whole existence, for I have passed from a state of disappointment to a state when I can enjoy life to the fullest. Brigham Young

If any of us are imperfect, it is our duty to pray for the gift that will make us perfect. Have I imperfections? I am full of them. What is my duty? To pray to God to give me the gifts that will correct these imperfections. If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind. Am I an envious man? It is my duty to seek for charity, which envieth not. So with all the gifts of the gospel. They are intended for this purpose. No man ought to say, “Oh, I cannot help this; it is my nature.” He is not justified in it, for the reason that God has promised to give strength to correct these things, and to give gifts that will eradicate them. If a man lack wisdom, it is his duty to ask God for wisdom. The same with everything else. That is the design of God concerning His Church. He wants His Saints to be perfected in the truth. For this purpose He gives these gifts and bestows them upon those who seek after them, in order that they may be a perfect people upo...

To hell there is an exit as well as an entrance. Hell is no place to which a vindictive judge sends prisoners to suffer and be punished principally for his glory; but it is a place prepared for the teaching, the disciplining of those who failed to learn here upon the earth what they should have learned. … No man will be kept in hell longer than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state. Elder James E. Talmage, Conference Report, April 1930, 97

I can tell the people that once in my life I felt a want of confidence in brother Joseph Smith, soon after I became acquainted with him. It was not concerning religious matters—it was not about his revelations—but it was in relation to his financiering—to his managing the temporal affairs which he undertook. A feeling came ever me that Joseph was not right in his financial management, though I presume the feeling did not last sixty seconds, and perhaps not thirty. But that feeling came on me once and once only, from the time I first knew him to the day of his death. It gave me sorrow of heart, and I clearly saw and understood, by the spirit of revelation manifested to me, that if I was to harbor a thought in my heart that Joseph could be wrong in anything, I would begin to lose confidence in him, and that feeling would grow from step to step, and from one degree to another, until at last I would have the same lack of confidence in his being the mouthpiece for the Almighty, and I would ...

 When you look in the dictionary for the most important word, do you know what it is?  It could be "remember."  Because all of you have made covenants--you know what to do and you know how to do it--our greatest need is to remember.   Spencer W. Kimball