Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that through service and faith, we can receive spiritual strength beyond our limits.
Henry B. Eyring's quote highlights the transformative power of serving others in alignment with divine principles. It suggests that when we stretch ourselves in our service to God and others, we are granted increased spiritual strength through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, allowing us to handle our responsibilities and challenges with greater ease. This ability to endure and uplift not only fulfills our obligations but also transforms our very nature, enabling us to bear even more than we thought we could.
In practice
During a church service, a leader might share this quote to inspire members to engage more in community service.
My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember God’s kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.
Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.
We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want so much to have forever.
It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.
It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don't know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don't waste them.
Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.
Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer.
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
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