Sections:
Spiritual
Political
Family
Entertainment
Beauty
Spiritual:
-RichardsonStudies.com
– “There is a grand distinction between the actual meaning of the prophets and the present translation…My soul delighteth in reading the word of the Lord in the original” -Joseph Smith
-Prayer Changes Things
-“Jesus Christ is The Source of Every Blessing We Receive.” -Henry B. Eyring
-“No amount of time in front of the mirror will make you as attractive as having the Holy Ghost with you.” -Sheri Dew
-“Noah Came Before The Flood. I Have Come Before The Fire.” –Joseph Smith
-“But as oft as they repented and sought forgiveness, with real intent, they were forgiven.” –Moroni 6:8
– Jesus Christ Created The Earth (Heb. 1:2; Col. 1:16; John 1:3, 10; 1 Cor. 8:6)
-“The solutions to life’s problems are always gospel solutions.” –Jeffrey R. Holland
-True Evolution: We Are The Children Of God. Children Can Become Like Their Parents.
–“Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God” The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
-“Spiritual impressions I’ve received about you lead me to believe that the term Millennial may actually be perfect for you.” Russell M. Nelson, 2016
-The blessings obtained by sacrifice are greater than anything that is given up. (LDS.org)
-I’m counting on “The Big Bang Theory” for my next math test.
-“[Motherhood] is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.” Neil Andersen
–Life Is a 3 Act Play: Pre-Mortality, Mortality, Immortality
– Life Is a 3 Act Play:
1. Pre-Mortality [ Prepare]
2. Mortality [ Sacrifice]
3. Immortality [ Reward]
–“Every man and woman that reaches to this unspeakable attainment (exaltation) will be as beautiful as the angels that surround the throne of God.” Brigham Young
-Heaven Is Structured In Families D&C 130:2
-Temple Marriage: Not “Till Death Do You Part” The Perfection of Romance
-“The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.” Boyd K Packer
-“No Other Success Can Compensate for Failure in the Home” David O. McKay
-“Communism is Satan’s counterfeit for the gospel plan” Marion G. Romney
– The Book of Mormon Settles Bible Debates
–Who have talents but never use those divine endowments of talents become as though they never had talents. (Matt. 25:14-30)
– Satan always has an excuse for wickedness, even the murder of God.
-All the evil men put aside their differences in their common hatred of Jesus Christ and worked together to plot the murder of Jesus.
-Jesus lived as a servant and was sold for the price of a slave.
-Self condemning humility is better than self-gratifying pride. -Bruce R McConkie
-We pray in the name of Christ for that is the name we took upon ourselves at baptism.
-Having love in us is what makes us bold at the judgement bar of God. (Matt. 25:40)
-The greater the obedience, the greater the love. (John 14:15)
-Friend of the World is an Enemy of God (James 4:4)
-“ Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” John 11:25-26
-“Make no small plans, for they have no power to stir men’s souls.” Spencer W. Kimball
-Live like a pagan, get a pagan’s reward.
-Keep the B.Y. in B.Y.U. (keep Brigham Young in Brigham Young University)
-The blessings obtained by sacrifice are greater than anything that is given up. (LDS.org)
-Life Is a 3 Act Play:
1. Pre-Mortality [ Prepare]
2. Mortality [ Sacrifice]
3. Immortality [ Reward]
–-In the exact same way as how Father sent Christ, so did Christ send the Apostles. As Christ is in the Father, so are the Twelve Apostles in Christ, and the Saints are in the Twelve Apostles. Christ does as he sees the Father do. The Twelve Apostles do as they see Christ do. The Saints do as they see the Twelve Apostles do. -Bruce R McConkie
-Even in our purest moment we can’t begin to pretend to understand the suffering of Christ. -Bruce R McConkie
-Jesus asked those who came to arrest him whom they sought. They said Jesus of Nazareth. He said I am he. These men were affected by his presence in such a way that they, who faught criminals without fear, now fell to their backs with fear being in front of something so pure. -Bruce R McConkie
-We can hardly count the times Jesus says these rulers are hypocrites and liars only fit for the fires of Gahanna. -Bruce R McConkie
-Gospel truth is taught by testimony. The spiritually alive believe, the spiritually sick question, and the spiritually dead deny and reject. -Bruce R McConkie
-Guilt yields cowardice, and cowardice weakness. -Bruce R McConkie
-The most plain and simple summary of Jesus’ teachings is in The Book of Mormon when Jesus teaches the people of ancient America as a resurrected being. -Bruce R McConkie
-The Book of Mormon will be the means of gathering the Gentiles in the last days. It is the sign that the gathering has begun. (3 Ne. 21:7)
-The Abrahamic Covenant is fulfilled in Eternal Marriage.
-America with its constitution is to prepare the way for the Book of Mormon so that the Covenant of Abraham may be fulfilled. – Bruce R. McConkie
-Prophets long prayed for the restoration of the Kingdom of God. The Book of Mormon coming forth is the sign that Kingdom is commenced again, and the gathering begun. (3 Ne. 21:7)
-Who walk mournfully before the Lord will be greatly blessed more so than those who are proud. -Bruce R. McConkie
-The Book of Mormon is the milk of the gospel; the sealed portion of the Book of Mormon which we don’t have because of our unbelief is the meat of the gospel. We must receive the milk before we can handle the meat. -Bruce R. McConkie
-The church of a man has no power to resurrect the body or to create Celestial realms where the exhausted may dwell. Only the Church of Christ may do that. -Bruce R. McConkie
-We can be as close to Christ as John was when he leaned on the breast of Christ at Passover, and that especially so during prayer. -Bruce R. McConkie
-Those who think all of the gospel is figurative are no different than the Sadducees, they believed not angels, Christ, or in the afterlife. -Bruce R. McConkie
-Christ’s greatest miracles were those of healing the spiritually wounded, of raising the spiritually dead to life. -Bruce R. McConkie
-The test of mortality is to see if we will believe the truth as it is preached to us. Those who believe the truth are saved, those who believe a lie are damned. -Bruce R. McConkie
-We can’t just believe; Christ commanded all to give reason to others for the reason of the hope that is in them. (1 Pet. 3:15)
-There has been a famine for the word of God, now not so, all may come and drink. -Bruce R. McConkie, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
-We call out as if in the wilderness to the people to come and be saved. Quench the thirst of your soul. -Bruce R. McConkie, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
-Our voice is one of joy gladness and melody; God has given again the fullness of the everlasting gospel, priesthood and keys, all things needed to save men. -Bruce R. McConkie, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
-Our witness is that the great God has called his servant Joseph Smith Jr. to begin the true Church of Christ in our day. -Bruce R. McConkie, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
– The prototype is Christ. He is the standard of salvation. He is a saved being. He is saved because he is a just and holy being, and if he were anything other than what he is he would not be saved. If it were possible for him to change from what he is it would not be possible for him to be saved. To be unlike Christ is to be destroyed. Herein hinges the door of salvation. Christ carried his cross and died, and if called upon, we must do so as well. -Bruce R. McConkie, referencing Joseph Smith, Lectures on Faith
-“And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Matt. 25:40
-Having love in us is what makes us bold at the judgement bar of God. (Matt. 25:40)
Political
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– WorldAffairsBrief.com
-“I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man” Thomas Jefferson
-“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot” Mark Twain
-“Communism is Satan’s counterfeit for the gospel plan” Marion G. Romney
-“Spiritual impressions I’ve received about you lead me to believe that the term Millennial may actually be perfect for you.” Russell M. Nelson, 2016
-“If we are to build that Zion of which the prophets have spoken and of which the Lord has given mighty promise, we must set aside our consuming selfishness.” Gordon B. Hinckley
– True Feminism: Raising a Child is as Difficult as Any Corporate Position
-The Fetus isn’t a CHOICE, It’s a HUMAN BEING
-Abortion? Whatever happened to “Coexist”?
-Leading Cause of Death: ABORTION (they never saw it comin’!)
-Since life is short & man is frail, let tongue alive his tale to tell.
Family
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-UtahFosterCare.org
–“Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God” The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
-“[Motherhood] is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.” Neil Andersen
-Heaven Is Structured In Families D&C 130:2
-Temple Marriage: Not “Till Death Do You Part” The Perfection of Romance
-“The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.” Boyd K Packer
-“No Other Success Can Compensate for Failure in the Home” David O. McKay
-The life of man, his exaltation entire, is to swirl around his spouse, to praise her and admire.
-Man is guardian of that which is most sweet, the wife of his bosom, the help whom is meet.
Entertainment
-RichardsonStudies.com
–“Ball Is Life” –> “Baal Is Life”
-If “Ball Is Life”, what is afterlife?
-“Ball Is Life” except on Sundays
-Television: Roman Colosseum Alive and Well
-TV: 21st century Colosseum
-“I believe the entertainment industry cannot portray on film people gunned down in cold blood, in living color, and not have it affect the attitudes and thoughts of some of the people who see it. … I believe that the desensitizing effect of such media abuses on the hearts and souls of those who are exposed to them results in a partial fulfillment of the Savior’s statement that ‘because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.’” – Russel M Ballard Ensign, “It’s “Only” Violence”; (https://www.lds.org/ensign/2003/06/its-only-violence?lang=eng)
-Because of Television we live inside the great and spacious building. -Boyd K Packer
-Chose Media Wisely: Participation –> Emulation
Beauty
-Though masters of different art, we ne’er have need to part
-Beauty is the Essence of Zion! (Ps. 150:2)
-“No amount of time in front of the mirror will make you as attractive as having the Holy Ghost with you.” -Sheri Dew
-“Every man and woman that reaches to this unspeakable attainment (exaltation) will be as beautiful as the angels that surround the throne of God.” Brigham Young
– Devolution: Generation Yoga Pants
-Express Yourself by Action, Not Trendiness
-Tattoos don’t leave your mark on the world, they leave the worlds mark on you
-God defines beauty as a thing being in the state in which he created it.
-“They make you look uncomely (unpleasant, unattractive), to see your dresses drawn around you, showing your form.” Brigham Young
–What were the last days like my father, before the end of days? Well son, People stopped wearing pants!
-Stop the Yoga Pants Revolution! For God’s Sake Sister, Cover That Up! Wrong Place, Wrong Time.
-It’s not that I don’t fit the dress, the dress doesn’t fit me.
– Profile of a modest woman reading: this is to fight the nude woman profile image which other vehicles use, showing there’s more to woman than the body. Bodies are divine, but their use is to be kept within the bounds which the Lord has set. Too many women are mistreated, not recognized as intelligent and divine as they are:
