“According to the Desire of [Our] Hearts”
Neal A. Maxwell October 1996 Saturday Afternoon Session
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“For I [said the Lord] will judge all men according to their works, according to the desire of their hearts”
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Therefore, what we insistently desire, over time, is what we will eventually become and what we will receive in eternity.
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Therefore, what we insistently desire, over time, is what we will eventually become and what we will receive in eternity.
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“For I, the Lord, will judge all men according to their works, according to the desire of their hearts” (D&C 137:8–9).
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God thus takes into merciful account not only our desires and our performance, but also the degrees of difficulty which our varied circumstances impose upon us.
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God thus takes into merciful account not only our desires and our performance, but also the degrees of difficulty which our varied circumstances impose upon us.
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However, in contrast to God’s merciful plan for our joy and glory, Satan “[desires] that all men might be miserable like unto himself” (2 Ne.
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Mostly, brothers and sisters, we become the victims of our own wrong desires.
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Whenever spiritually significant things are under way, righteous desires are present.
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Whenever spiritually significant things are under way, righteous desires are present.
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No wonder desires also determine the gradations in outcomes, including why “many are called, but few are chosen” (Matt.
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The absence of any keen desire—merely being lukewarm—causes a terrible flattening (see Rev.
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This sad condition is yet another variation of the “sorrowing of the damned” (Morm.
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Fortunately for us, our loving Lord will work with us, “even if [we] can [do] no more than desire to believe,” providing we will “let this desire work in [us]” (Alma 32:27).
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Some of our present desires, therefore, need to be diminished and then finally dissolved.
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Unquestionably, parents have such a profound role in assisting in the educating of our desires, especially when parents combine explanation and exemplification!
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Unquestionably, parents have such a profound role in assisting in the educating of our desires, especially when parents combine explanation and exemplification!
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 30: Jesus Returns to the Temple Daily
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As summary and epilogue of the three great parables constituting this series, the Lord spake these words of solemn import: “For many are called, but few are chosen.”z Each of the parables has its own wealth of wisdom; and the three are as one in declaring the great truth that even the children of the covenant will be rejected except they make good their title by godly works; while to the heathen and the sinners the portals of heaven shall open, if by repentance and compliance with the laws an...
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“The word seek means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire.
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