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.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the inability of individuals to achieve salvation through their own efforts alone and the necessity of divine grace.
Dallin H. Oaks expresses the idea that while humans possess great abilities and strengths, their actions and good deeds are insufficient to secure their salvation. It highlights the belief that salvation is a divine gift that comes through the atonement of Jesus Christ, rather than a result of human merit, underscoring a theological perspective on grace and redemption.
In practice
In a sermon about the importance of humility and reliance on divine grace.
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.
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.
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
She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.
we are the lords of all eternity
Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?
i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.
And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend
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