tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880654315943365046.post5210286440517224021..comments2023-05-18T08:46:59.064-06:00Comments on from the desk of Denver Snuffer: President MonsonDenver Snufferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13850530477432070456noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880654315943365046.post-36755890756921594162010-04-26T02:40:36.344-06:002010-04-26T02:40:36.344-06:00The true measure of a man is how he protects &...The true measure of a man is how he protects & provides for women & children, (the widows & the fatherless). Only a few rare righteous men today live their religion & their 'most important duty as men' & do this. <br /><br />The neglect of single women & children was the greatest sin of Sodom, that brought down fire from heaven. Homosexuality was nothing to this sin. Today it is the same, the widows & the fatherless, (single women) are being neglected, forgotten & unprotected. We are worse than even Sodom. For even many men in the Church, who should honor their Priesthood, even make their wives single & their children fatherless.<br /><br />This example of Pres. Monson looking after single women & children is probably the most vital lesson he will ever teach us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880654315943365046.post-77675633701908483482010-04-12T22:55:02.446-06:002010-04-12T22:55:02.446-06:00Thought this might apply:
"The moment you ar...Thought this might apply:<br /><br />"The moment you are aware of your holiness it goes sour and becomes self-righteousness. A good deed is never so good as when you have no consciousness that it is good—you are so much in love with the action that you are quite unself-conscious about your goodness and virtue. Your left hand has no idea that your right hand is doing something good or meritorious. You simply do it because it seems the natural, spontaneous thing to do. Spend some time in becoming aware of the fact that all the virtue that you can see in yourself is no virtue at all but something that you have cunningly cultivated and produced and forced on yourself. If it were real virtue you would have enjoyed it thoroughly and would feel so natural that it wouldn’t occur to you to think of it as a virtue. So the first quality of holiness is its unself-consciousness.<br /><br />"The second quality is its effortlessness. Effort can change a behavior, it cannot change you. Think of this: Effort can put food into your mouth, it cannot produce an appetite; it can keep you in bed, it cannot produce sleep; it can make you reveal a secret to another but it cannot produce trust; it can force you to pay a compliment, it cannot produce genuine admiration; effort can PERFORM acts of service, it is powerless to produce love or holiness. All you can achieve by your effort is REPRESSION, not genuine change and growth.<br /><br />The Way to Love<br />~ Anthony De MelloAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com