“Repent of [Our] Selfishness” (D&C 56:8)
Neal A. Maxwell April 1999 Saturday Afternoon Session
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The early and familiar forms of selfishness are: building up self at the expense of others, claiming or puffing credit, being glad when others go wrong, resenting the genuine successes of others, preferring public vindication to private reconciliation, and taking “advantage of one because of his words” (2 Ne.
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Selfishness likewise causes us to be discourteous, disdainful, and self-centered while withholding from others needed goods, praise, and recognition as we selfishly pass them by and notice them not (see Morm.
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Cultural decline is accelerated when single-interest segments of society become indifferent to general values once widely shared.
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Cultural decline is accelerated when single-interest segments of society become indifferent to general values once widely shared.
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Some of the selfish wrongly believe that there is no divine law anyway, so there is no sin (see 2 Ne.
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Some of the selfish wrongly believe that there is no divine law anyway, so there is no sin (see 2 Ne.
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Unsurprisingly, therefore, selfishness leads to terrible perceptual and behavioral blunders.
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Developmentally, what transpires is like what happened to an ancient group of children “who did grow up … , that they became for themselves”—hardened and errant (3 Ne.
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Determined to walk in his own way, the natural man often persists to the point where he is “past feeling,” having been sedated by pleasing the carnal mind (see 1 Ne.
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Determined to walk in his own way, the natural man often persists to the point where he is “past feeling,” having been sedated by pleasing the carnal mind (see 1 Ne.
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We actually have an obligation to notice genuine, telltale societal signs.
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The prophet Mormon unselfishly consented to lead a people who were in steep decline.
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The prophet Mormon unselfishly consented to lead a people who were in steep decline.
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