Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.
Jeffrey R. HollandRead
God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that our past is less important than our present choices and future potential.
Jeffrey R. Holland's quote highlights the idea that divine interest and concern focus more on an individual's current state and their readiness to pursue new paths, rather than their historical mistakes or triumphs. It underscores the belief that with divine assistance, personal growth and direction can be prioritized over past experiences, encouraging individuals to embrace change and aim for a better future.
In practice
A motivational speaker might use this quote to inspire their audience to look forward to new opportunities.
Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history β perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still, it stands.
Don't you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon. Some come late. Some don't come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in Good Things to Come.
Maybe the purchasing and the making and the wrapping and the decorating - those delightfully generous and important expressions of our love at Christmas - should be separated, if only slightly, from the more quiet, personal moments when we consider the meaning of the Baby (and his birth) who prompts the giving of such gifts.
Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.
Brothers and sisters, this is a divine work in process, with the manifestations and blessings of it abounding in every direction, so please donβt hyperventilate if from time to time issues arise that need to be examined, understood, and resolved. They do and they will. In this Church, what we know will always trump what we do not know. And remember, in this world, everyone is to walk by faith.
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
To Harry Potter β the boy who lived!
If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning β to be a Beginner!
We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
I didn't enter Miss S.A. because I thought I was the most beautiful woman in S.A., I entered because it's one of the few platforms that give women the ability to lead and I knew I had a powerful voice and message to send out.
I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.
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