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.
Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that,_x000D_ if you let it alone,_x000D_ it will let you alone.
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.
Winning and losing, that's never been my objective. It's my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court will come to see things as I do.
It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.
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