With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
Russell M. NelsonRead
Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.
Interpretation
Respect and reverence for the sacred lead to greater understanding and insight.
In this quote, Russell M. Nelson highlights the interconnectedness of honor, respect, reverence, and revelation in the context of the priesthood. He suggests that honoring religious authority fosters a culture of respect, which in turn cultivates a sense of reverence, ultimately opening the doors to deeper spiritual understanding and revelations from a higher power.
In practice
In a speech about faith, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of honoring one's beliefs.
With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God.
Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was. It is a gift from God, nearly as precious as life itself. Often, however, agency is misunderstood. While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequence of those choices. We are free to take drugs or not. But once we choose to use a habit-forming drug, we are bound to the consequences of that choice. Addiction surrenders later freedom to choose.
We live in a time of turmoil. Earthquakes and tsunamis wreak devastation, governments collapse, economic stresses are severe, the family is under attack,_x000D_ and divorce rates are rising. We have great cause for concern. But we do not need to let our fears displace our faith. We can combat those fears by strengthening our faith.
As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may not be the best way to accomplish his objective. Instead, if he will lovingly cling to the Savior and the iron rod of the gospel, his family will want to cling to him and to the Savior.
Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.
Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it
Everything you are comes from your choices.
Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot!
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