Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.
Jeffrey R. HollandRead
Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the nature of human experience, suggesting that we all face challenges, often of our own making, and sharing a common humanity.
Jeffrey R. Holland's quote invites us to consider the complexities of our lives where, despite differing circumstances, we all face difficulties, often of our own creation. It prompts reflection on our shared humanity, drawing a parallel to the notion that we are, in various ways, 'beggars' seeking understanding, support, or resolution to our struggles.
In practice
In a speech about overcoming obstacles, you could include this quote to illustrate common human challenges.
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.
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.
Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting unregulated citizens to have guns is destroying the security of this free state.
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