Those who don't

"I don't see why we can't just as well get along with a
polygamist who doesn't polyg
than with a monogamist who doesn't monog."

Senator Penrose
at the 1903-1907
Reed Smoot hearings

Expect Nothing, Give Everything!

Love is not selective, and charity knows no bounds. Thus if I expect anything in return for charity except the happiness of the recipient then it is not charity. There is no bookkeeping, no quid pro quo, no deals, interests, bargaining or ulterior motives; charity gives to those who do not deserve and expects nothing in return;

It is the love God has for us, and the love we have for little children, of whom we expect nothing but from whom we would give everything. -Hugh Nibley

Both Hands

Real disciples withstand the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding to the iron rod with the other. There should be no mistaking; it will take both hands!

Neal A. Maxwell

In conference report Apr. 1987, 87 or Ensign May 1987, 70

See: Ephesians 6:16, 1 Nephi 15:24, D&C 27:17.

Control

Leonardo DaVinci once observed:

“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The delight of a man’s success is gauged by his self mastery: The depth of his failure by his self abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”

One Grand Miracle

No doctrine supersedes or even approaches the Atonement in importance. It is the grandest miracle to have ever occurred. C.S. Lewis observed that if one takes away the miracles attributed to Buddhism, there would be “no loss” to religion. If all miracles were eliminated from Islam, he adds, “nothing essential would be altered.” Then this striking observation: “But you cannot possibly do that with Christianity, because the Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion” that Christ came “into human nature, descended into His own universe, and rose again, bringing Nature up with Him. It is precisely one great miracle. If you take that away there is nothing specifically Christian left.”

From The Infinite Atonement, by Tad R. Callister, pg.8-9. Deseret Book 2000

On my right and on my left

Since things don't always go right it's nice to have someone like you on my left!

Really Good Friends

We all let people into our lives,
but you will find that
really good friends
let you into your own.