When individual members and families immerse themselves in the scriptures regularly and consistently, … other areas of activity will automatically come. Testimonies will increase. Commitment will be strengthened. Families will be fortified. Personal revelation will flow
Interpretation
Regular engagement with scriptures strengthens personal faith and family bonds.
This quote emphasizes the transformative power of regularly engaging with sacred texts, suggesting that continuous immersion leads to spiritual growth, increased commitment, and strengthened family ties. It posits that as individuals and families prioritize scripture study, they will naturally experience a variety of positive outcomes, including enhanced testimonies and personal insights, ultimately fortifying their spiritual and familial foundations.
In practice
During a family gathering, share this quote to encourage everyone to prioritize scripture study.
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."
Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Robust health is a noble and worthwhile attainment.
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.
If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.
I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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