David A. Bednar Quotes

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• If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.

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  Yesterday, Self Improvement, Progress

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• Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.

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  God, Faith, Christian

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• One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

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  Spiritual, Maturity, Inexperience

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• When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

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  Believe, Mean, Offending

  "And Nothing Shall Offend Them". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2006.

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• Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to detect the hunger of others when we are hungry; and in the power to reach out and extend compassion for the spiritual agony of others when we are in the midst of our own spiritual distress.

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  Spiritual, Character, Compassion

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• People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Practice

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• Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

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  Praying, Circumstances, Changed

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• A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

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  Grateful, Suffering, Contentment

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• Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our souls. No one event may appear to be very impressive or memorable. But just as the yellow and gold and brown strokes of paint complement each other and produce an impressive masterpiece, so our consistency in doing seemingly small things can lead to significant spiritual results.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Home

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• Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.

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  Essence, Knowing, Being True

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• I testify that the tender mercies of the Lord are real and that they do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence. Often, the Lord's timing of His tender mercies helps us to both discern and acknowledge them.

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  Real, Helping, Timing

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• A grateful person is rich in contentment.

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  Grateful, Contentment, Rich

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• Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries.

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  Age, Stations

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• Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.

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  Thanksgiving, Blessed, Goal

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• The issue is not going to church; rather, the issue is worshipping and renewing covenants as we attend church. The issue is not going to or through the temple; rather, the issue is having in our hearts the spirit, the covenants, and the ordinances of the Lord's house. The issue is not going on a mission; rather, the issue is becoming a missionary and serving throughout our entire life with all of our heart, might, mind, and strength.

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  Heart, Issues, House

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• There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever confront in mortality that the Savior did not experience first. In a moment of weakness we may cry out, “No one knows what it is like. No one understands.” But the Son of God perfectly knows and understands, for He has felt and borne our individual burdens.

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  Spiritual, Pain, Son

  "Bear Up Their Burdens with Ease". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2014.

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• In the strength of the Lord we can do and endure and overcome all things.

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  Overcoming, Lord, Endure

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• The tender mercies of the Lord are available to all of us and...the Redeemer of Israel is eager to bestow such gifts upon us.

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  Israel, Mercy, Lord

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• Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

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  Law, Progress, Eternity

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• Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.

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  Meaningful, Gratitude, Prayer

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• Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives, even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted.

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  Strong, Outcomes, Timing

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• To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

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  Offended You, Choices, Mean Spirited

  "And Nothing Shall Offend Them" by David A. Bednar, www.lds.org. October 2006.

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• We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.

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  Mean, Heartfelt, Needs

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• For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.

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  Powerful, Persistence, Deeds

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• The standard is clear. If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing, or doing that thing... Because we estrange the Spirit of the Lord when we engage in activities we know we should shun, then such things definitely are not for us.

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  Distance, Thinking, Hearing

  "That We May Always Have His Spirit to Be with Us". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2006.

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