The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the ongoing commitment to spiritual growth and openness to divine guidance.
Henry B. Eyring highlights the importance of actively accepting and inviting the Holy Spirit into our lives as a continuous choice rather than a one-time event. This commitment requires us to seek spiritual connection and guidance regularly, reminding us that faith is a daily practice rooted in conscious decision-making.
In practice
During a sermon about personal faith and spirituality.
My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember Godβs 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.
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.
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.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.
May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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