Mormon Musings

 "I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and prayerful heart, and to work, work, work."  Heber J. Grant

 “It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.” John Taylor

 "Life is a storm...you will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.  What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."  Alexandre Dumas

 I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.  Heber J. Grant

Sometimes we are tempted to let our lives be governed more by convenience than by covenant. It is not always convenient to live gospel standards and stand up for truth and testify of the Restoration. It usually is not convenient to share the gospel with others. It isn’t always convenient to respond to a calling in the Church, especially one that stretches our abilities. Opportunities to serve others in meaningful ways, as we have covenanted to do, rarely come at convenient times. But there is no spiritual power in living by convenience. The power comes as we keep our covenants. As we look at the lives of these early Saints, we see that their covenants were the primary force in their lives.  M. Russell Ballard, “ Like a Flame Unquenchable ,”  Ensign,  May 1999.

I fear that we have become so enamored with recreation, with fame and fortune, with videos, with television, and with what money can buy that we have little time for eternal things. We cannot take the time to obtain a knowledge of the doctrines of eternity—for that requires sacrifice, effort, and struggle. Furthermore, we have learned to live in a world of clamor and noise and haste and hurry to the extent that we have often become immune to the Spirit of the Lord and the “peaceable things of the kingdom." L. Aldin Porter, October 1994 General Conference

"When His commandments teach us, it is in view of eternity; for we are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.”  Joseph Smith