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• The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

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  Joy, Soul, Suffering

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• Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.

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  Crowds

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• Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.

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  Selfishness, World, Way

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• No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

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  Lying, Love Is, Doe

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• I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, "My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds." That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.

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  Wise, Wall, Heart

  "Deposition of a Disciple". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, Deseret Book Co. (Salt Lake City), p. 5, 1976.

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• Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

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  Jesus, Rooms, Ifs

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• Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls coveting "the drop," while neglecting the "more weighty matters." (D&C 117:8) Myopic selfishness magnifies a mess of pottage and makes thirty pieces of silver look like a treasure trove. In our intense acquisitiveness, we forget Him who once said, "What is property unto me?"

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  Fighting, People, Selfishness

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• These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.

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  Adversity, Lds, Faithful

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• While most of our suffering is self- inflicted, some is caused by or permitted by God. This sobering reality calls for deep submissiveness, especially when God does not remove the cup from us. In such circumstances, when reminded about the premortal shouting for joy as this life's plan was unfolded (Job 38:7), we can perhaps be pardoned if, in some moments, we wonder what all the shouting was about.

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  Jobs, Reality, Self

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• To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.

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  Giving, Despair, Cheerful

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• You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

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  Children, Rocks, World

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• The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

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  Giving, Submission, Given

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• In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

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  Exclamation Points, Grammar, Exclamation

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• We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

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  Justice, Assuming, Assumption

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• God will facilitate, but He will not force.

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  Force, Gods Will, Facilitate

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• Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. That’s how we overcome, most of the time. It’s not their elimination, but the placing of them in that larger context.

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  Brother, Joy, Overcoming

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• Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.

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  Courage, Years, Darkness

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• The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain.

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  Giving, Justice, Temptation

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• We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

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  Knees

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• If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!

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  Time, Children, Light

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• Frequently, we busily search for group service projects, which are surely needed and commendable, when quiet, personal service is also urgently needed. Sometimes the completing of an occasional group service project ironically salves our consciences when, in fact, we are constantly surrounded by a multitude of opportunities for individual service. In serving, as in true worship, we need to do some things together and some things personally. Our spiritual symmetry is our own responsibility, and balance is so important.

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  Spiritual, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.

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  Long, Giving, Waiting

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• No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know. There are no idle hours; there are only idle people. In true righteousness there is serenity, but there is an array of reminders that the "sacred present" is packed with possibilities which are slipping by us, which are going away from us each moment.

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  People, Serenity, Balance

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• In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.

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  Real, Needs, God Knows

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• Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.

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  Integrity, Writing, Cash

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