These are terrible people in ISIS, not masterminds.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Don't yield to Satan's lie that you don't have time to study the scriptures. Choose to take time to study them. Feasting on the word of God each day is more important than sleep, school, work, television shows, video games, or social media. You may need to reorganize your priorities to provide time for the study of the word of God. If so, do it!
Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.
Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change
Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.
Recognize the good in others, not their stains.
I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential.
I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse. . . Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.