The truth is that we are saved by grace only after all we ourselves can do. (See 2 Ne. 25:23.) There will be no government dole which can get us through the pearly gates. Nor will anybody go into the celestial kingdom who wants to go there on the works of someone else. Every man must go through on his own merits. We might just as well learn this here and now.
Interpretation
We must take personal responsibility for our actions to achieve salvation or success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of individual effort and merit in achieving spiritual salvation. Marion G. Romney conveys that relying on external help or the merits of others is insufficient; true progress requires personal dedication and action. The notion of grace being granted after one does all they can highlights the balance between divine assistance and human responsibility in personal development.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-improvement and personal accountability.
No, the Lord doesn't really need us to take care of the poor, but we need this experience; for it is only through our learning how to take care of each other that we develop within us the Christlike love and disposition necessary to qualify us to return to his presence.
In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.
You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.
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