Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.
Thou shalt not whine' should be the eleventh commandment.
I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.
Commandments are opportunities to exercise our agency and to receive blessings.
Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth. Our job is to be true to Him, Hi-His word and His commandments, and we should assume humbly that we're confused and don't always know what we're doin' and we're staggerin' and stumblin' towards him and have some humility in that process.
To you who are worthy and able to attend the temple, I would admonish you to go often. The temple is a place where we can find peace. There we receive a renewed dedication to the gospel and a strengthened resolve to keep the commandments.
This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.
We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much?. . . What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy.
One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority. '
Heavenly Father's commandments are the road map He has given us to return to Him, which is the only way we will be eternally happy.
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai. . . but he has never improved on God's law.
Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law. . . there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.
What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.
The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change.
One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life.
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.