“You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.” IfsHandsVirtueVicesLiftsEntertaining Author:D. Todd Christofferson
“There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.” IfsWellsEndsEnoughWould BeIndividualCausesSinDealsCommonSituationMoralStruggleVirtueDisciplineApproachRootsVainExpensiveInternalsDecayEnforcementSymptomsCompassAnticipateCivicsCommon GoodRoot CauseMoral CompassPantheonCivic Virtue Author:D. Todd Christofferson
“As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope to save a man on Sunday if during the week it is a complacent witness to the crucifixion of his soul.” IfsMenYearsSoulGrowsHurtChurchWeekMonthsAdversityDeeperWitnessSundayComplacentCrucifixion Author:D. Todd Christofferson
“Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.” IfsNeedsGivingFeelsHeartMaySoulSpiritUnderstandingLordCastsSeedsMy SoulCompareBreastsDeliciousEnlighteningUnbeliefSwelling Author:D. Todd Christofferson
