Showing posts with label Obedience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obedience. Show all posts

Sunday, April 30, 2017

"God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only our availability and if we then prove our dependability, he will then increase our capability."

-Neal A. Maxwell

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

"Frequently it is not easy to face up to that which is expected of us.  Many think they cannot do it.  We need a little more faith.  We should know that the Lord will not give us commandments beyond our power to observe.  He will not ask us to do things for which we lack the capacity.  Our problem lies in our fears and in our appetites."

-Gordon B. Hinckley

Friday, September 6, 2013

"When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power."

-President Ezra T. Benson

Monday, January 7, 2013

"I am going to preach a hard doctrine to you now.  The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar.  It is a hard doctrine, but it is true.  The many other things we give to God, however nice that may be of us, are actually things He has already given us, and He has loaned them to us.  But when we begin to submit ourselves by letting our will be swallowed up in God's will, then we are really giving something to Him.  And that hard doctrine lies at the center of discipleship.  There is a part of us that is ultimately sovereign, the mind and heart, where we really do decide which way to go and what to do.  And when we submit to His will, then we've really given Him the one final thing He asks of us.  And the other things are not very, very important.  It is the only possession we have that we can give, and there is no lessening of our agency as a result.  Instead, what we see is a flowering of our talents and more and more surges of joy.  Submission to Him is the only form of submission that is completely safe."

Neal A. Maxwell
Ensign, August 2000 "Insights from My Life"

Sunday, January 6, 2013


". . .the Lord's ratio of blessings to our obedience is a very generous ratio indeed.  He is so quick to reward us, so quick to reassure us, and so anxious to take delight when we serve Him."

Neal A. Maxwell
Insights from My Life
Ensign, August 2000