We need to remember that though we make our friends, God has made our neighbors – everywhere. Love should have no boundary; we should have no narrow loyalties.
Interpretation
We must embrace love and friendship beyond our immediate communities and acknowledge the universal connection we share with everyone.
This quote by Howard W. Hunter highlights the importance of love and friendship in our lives while urging us to recognize that our neighbors, regardless of their background, are part of the larger human family created by God. It challenges us to expand our loyalty and affections beyond close friends and family, advocating for a love that crosses boundaries and fosters inclusivity and compassion among all people.
In practice
During a speech about community service, one could mention this quote to inspire people to help those beyond their immediate circle.
Let us be a temple-attending people. Attend the temple as frequently as personal circumstances allow. Keep a picture of a temple in your home that your children may see it. Teach them about the purposes of the House of the Lord. Have them plan from their earliest years to go there and to remain worthy of that blessing.
If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no king or contest or fiery furnace will be able to compromise us. For the success of the kingdom of God on earth, may we stand as witnesses for Him "at all times and in all things, and in all places that we may be in, even until death."
Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people….Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience.
The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is the difference between a contribution and a commitment. That devotion to true principle in our individual lives, in our homes and families, and in all places that we meet and influence other people-that devotion is what God is ultimately requesting of us.
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.
How is Christmas regarded today? The legend of Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, the decorations of tinsel and mistletoe, and the giving of gifts all express to us the spirit of the day we celebrate; but the true spirit of Christmas lies much deeper than these. It is found in the life of the Savior, in the principles He taught, in His atoning sacrifice-which become our great heritage.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
You can disagree without being disagreeable.
Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.
Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You might be last person to get the point of a joke, which can leave you feeling like an outsider. You might end up saying something that another person finds hurtful or offensive, when that was the last thing you intended.
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.
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