Tag: Christ

  • Finding Peace and Strength in Christ’s Connection

    Finding Peace and Strength in Christ’s Connection

    “I testify that through our covenant connection with Christ, we can experience amazing joy and happiness and also have access to His strengthening power, comfort, and peace when difficulties and disappointments arise.” -Susan K. Bednar The full source of this quote is from a speech given at Brigham Young University in January 2024, titled, Of Patriarchal…

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  • The Lord’s Guidance on Meaningful Service

    The Lord’s Guidance on Meaningful Service

    “I want to reassure you that the Lord accepts all your efforts. The announcements in general conference about ministering in a higher and holier way weren’t necessarily asking us to do more. Our lists are already very full! But maybe we can do the right things. The simple things. The things the Lord Himself wants…

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  • Finding Strength Through Suffering

    Finding Strength Through Suffering

    “Having experienced suffering, one develops power over it — not the power to stop it, or take it away from someone you love, but to know its sorrows fade. Having experienced suffering, one receives power from it — the power to share others’ burdens and be humble, to see one’s own burdens and be kind.…

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  • Jesus’ Experience with Human Pain: A Spiritual Perspective

    Jesus’ Experience with Human Pain: A Spiritual Perspective

    “Christ shrank from none of the bitter indignities of mortality, in order to be someone who is not insulated from our difficult lived reality. If you only live in a beautiful, prosperous world in which the beautiful and righteous prosper, then people who spent the day curled up in pain are not for you, and…

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