We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of withholding judgment of others and highlights the need for forgiveness.
Dallin H. Oaks stresses that humans should avoid making final judgments about others, acknowledging that only a higher power has the ability to truly understand and judge individuals. Instead, he calls for a focus on forgiveness, reinforcing the idea that compassion and understanding are essential in our interactions with others rather than harsh criticism or definitive conclusions about their character.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a discussion about the importance of empathy in our relationships.
Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.
I testify of our Savior, Jesus Christ, whose teachings and example we seek to follow. He invites all of us who are heavy laden to come unto Him, to learn of Him, to follow Him, and thus to find rest to our souls.
The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.
Man unquestionably has impressive powers... But after all our obedience and good works, we cannot be saved from the effects of our sins without the grace extended by the atonement of Jesus Christ... Man cannot earn his own salvation.
In order to ask with real intent or to act with full purpose of heart, we must always make an accompanying commitment.
My single young friends, we counsel you to channel your associations with the opposite sex into dating patterns that have the potential to mature into marriage, not hanging-out patterns that only have the prospect to mature into team sports like touch football. Marriage is not a group activity—at least not until the children come along in goodly numbers
I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.
Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.
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