D. Todd Christofferson Quotes

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• Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.

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  Good Man, Important, Essentials

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• True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.

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  Destiny, Choices, Purpose

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• Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.

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  Joy, Cost, Repentance

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• We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.

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  Spiritual, Needs, Levels

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• The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ.

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  Christ, This Life

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• Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires.

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  Character, Self Worth, Order

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• Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.

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  Exercise, Agency, Discipline

  FaceBook post by D Todd Christofferson from Feb 06, 2014

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• Freedom comes not from resisting truth, but from applying it.

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  Spiritual, Resisting

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• There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

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  Struggle, Roots, Discipline

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• Keep going and the Lord will help you.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Helping

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• Everyone has gifts; everyone can contribute.

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• The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Father, Son

  FaceBook post by D Todd Christofferson from Mar 03, 2014

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• Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we’ve become.

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  Mean, Law, Justice

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• We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion, and who can consistently overcome temptations. We need strong Christians who can make important things happen by their faith and who can defend the truth of Jesus Christ against moral relativism and militant atheism. What is the source of such moral and spiritual power, and how do we obtain it? The source is God. Our access to that power is through our covenants with Him.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• The greatest good we can do in helping others become what they can become will be to lead them to the Savior.

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  Helping Others, Helping, Savior

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• Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we can respect. Sometimes men try but fail. Not all worthy objectives are realized despite one’s honest and best efforts. True manhood is not always measured by the fruits of one’s labors but by the labors themselves–by one’s striving.

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  Mistake, Integrity, Men

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• Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

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  Character, Instruments, Consecrated Life

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• One of the blessings of the temple is the perspective that it provides. When we go to the house of the Lord, we leave all of our cares and problems at the door. And when we come back out, they’re still there. We have to pick them back up and they haven’t changed, but what has changed is us.

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  Blessing, Doors, Perspective

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• We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit from their achievements -- but still recognize that there is not a higher good than motherhood and fatherhood in marriage. There is no superior career, and no amount of money, authority or public acclaim can exceed the ultimate rewards of family.

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  Motherhood, Men, Careers

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• Integrity is fundamental to being men. Integrity means being truthful, but it also means accepting responsibility and honoring commitments and covenants.

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  Integrity, Mean, Commitment

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• What does God want me to do with the resources, time, and talents He has given me?

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  Doe, Want, Talent

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• The Savior's suffering in Gethsemane and His agony on the cross redeem us from sin by satisfying the demands that justice has upon us. He extends mercy and pardons those who repent. The Atonement also satisfies the debt justice owes to us by healing and compensating us for any suffering we innocently endure.

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  Healing, Agony, Justice

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• Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

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  Pain, Justice, Suffering

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• Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for sin does not by itself change anything for the better. Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands ofa better life.

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  Pain, Real, Suffering

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• A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.

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  Mother, Influence, Persons

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