With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
Russell M. NelsonRead
While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of personal growth and potential in choir members over merely their skills.
Russell M. Nelson's quote invites us to shift our perspective from evaluating the technical abilities of choir members to recognizing their potential as individuals. It highlights the value of nurturing character and personal development, suggesting that what people can become is more significant than what they can do, reflecting a deeper appreciation for creativity and expression in the arts.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a music class, highlighting the importance of individual development.
With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God.
Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was. It is a gift from God, nearly as precious as life itself. Often, however, agency is misunderstood. While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequence of those choices. We are free to take drugs or not. But once we choose to use a habit-forming drug, we are bound to the consequences of that choice. Addiction surrenders later freedom to choose.
We live in a time of turmoil. Earthquakes and tsunamis wreak devastation, governments collapse, economic stresses are severe, the family is under attack,_x000D_ and divorce rates are rising. We have great cause for concern. But we do not need to let our fears displace our faith. We can combat those fears by strengthening our faith.
As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may not be the best way to accomplish his objective. Instead, if he will lovingly cling to the Savior and the iron rod of the gospel, his family will want to cling to him and to the Savior.
Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.
This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of ethnicity, and how they intermingle across cultures.
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.
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