Mormon Musings

The scriptures not only witness the truth about Christ and His relevance for mankind, but are, in a sense, like a songbook.  There are many melodies that need to be sung and heard, and adult favorites are not necessarily those that attract or are relevant for the young.  Only through personal involvement with the scriptures can we find the particular scriptural songs that meet our needs.   We cannot depend entirely on group study of the Gospel to fill all our individual requirements.  We must ourselves open the songbook and hear the music.  The answers are there and the music of the Gospel, like its physical counterpart, suffers from too much filtering without high fidelity. Elder Neal A. Maxwell (A Time to Choose, pp. 52-53)

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses,  so  I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Joshua 1:5

I will do all the good I can, and all I know to do, and I will shun every evil that I know to be an evil.  You can all do that much.  I will apply my heart to wisdom, and ask the Lord to import it to me; and if I know but little, I will improve upon it, that tomorrow I may have more, and thus grow from day to day in the knowledge of the truth, as Jesus Christ grew in stature and knowledge from a babe to manhood; and if I am not now capable of judging for myself, perhaps I shall be in another year.  We are organized to progress in scale of intelligence, and the least Saint by adhering strictly to the order of God may attain to a full and complete salvation through the grace of God, by his own faithfulness . Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses  1:313

Truth, like God, is unchangeable, and cannot be controverted. Darkness flees before it, and error hides its head wherever it appears. John Taylor 5:148

“If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.”  Brigham Young

“To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked. ”  Brigham Young

“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”  Brigham Young