Monday, February 17, 2014

          I didn’t realize that the post on Sunday didn’t show up on the blog, so I retyped it and reposted it here:

        “As we seek to determine whether we have become true Latter-day Saints—inwardly as well as outwardly—it soon becomes apparent that the critical element is progress, not longevity.  The question is not how much time we have logged, but how far we have progressed toward perfection.  As Elder Neal A. Maxwell has said, ‘life is not lineal, but experiential, not chronological, but developmental’ (Ensign, Dec. 1986, 230).  The issue is not what we have done but what we have become.  And what we have become is the result of more than our actions.  It is also the result of our attitudes, our motives, and our desires.”  (Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Pure in Heart, 138-39