With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
Russell M. NelsonRead
We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.
Interpretation
Teaching the gospel to children makes the Sabbath enjoyable.
This quote emphasizes the importance of sharing religious teachings with children, suggesting that engaging in spiritual discussions during the Sabbath can enhance the experience, making it meaningful and joyful. It highlights how education in faith not only enriches the children's understanding but also transforms the day into a delight for families.
In practice
During a church service, a speaker may use this quote to highlight the importance of faith in family life.
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.
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.
I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.
We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
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