April 9, 2013 John 14-17 by Nancy Baird

Audio April 9, 2013 Lesson 90

John 14-17

Quotes
Spring is a happiness so beautiful, so unique, so unexpected that I don’t know what to do with my heart. –Emily Dickinson

“Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.”  Martin Luther

“The Spirit of God, speaking to the spirit of man, has power to impart truth with greater effect and understanding than the truth can be imparted by personal contact, even with Heavenly Beings.  Through the Holy Ghost, the truth is woven into the very fiber and sinews of the body so that it cannot be forgotten.”
Joseph Fielding Smith, quoted by Dallin Oaks, at the Mission Presidents seminar, 2001.

“God has given us a whole sea of his word.”  Martin Luther

“The sea grows always greater, nobody can paint it.” –The painter, Tintoretto

“The things of God are of deep import, and time and experience and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.  Thy mind, O Man [and we made add O Woman as well], if thou wilt lead a soul unto salvation, must stretch as high as the utmost Heavens, and search into and contemplate the lowest…abyss.”
Joseph Smith, from Liberty Jail, after being there five months.  In John Welch, BYU Studies, vol. 50, #3, 64-66.

“The Christian ethics is the ethics of inexpressible joy.”Theodor von Haering, 1909.  Interpreter’s Bible, 720.

“The mind is its own place, and in itself  can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I,II, 254-55.

“Which way I fly is hell; myself am Hell.”   Book IV, I, 69.

“Blessedness is not something added to goodness.  It is goodness.”
Spinoza, (1600’s) Ethics.

March 26, 2013 Easter Presentation by Diane Adair

 Audio March 26, 2013 Easter Presentation

Quotes

The more we study, pray, and ponder the awesome Atonement, the more we are willing to acknowledge that we are in His and the Father’s hands. Let us ponder, therefore, these final things.

When the unimaginable burden began to weigh upon Christ, it confirmed His long-held and intellectually clear understanding as to what He must now do. His working through began, and Jesus declared: “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour.” Then, whether in spiritual soliloquy or by way of instruction to those about Him, He observed, “But for this cause came I unto this hour.” (John 12:27)

Later, in Gethsemane, the suffering Jesus began to be “sore amazed” (Mark 14:33), or, in the Greek, “awestruck” and “astonished.”

Imagine, Jehovah, the Creator of this and other worlds, “astonished”! Jesus knew cognitively what He must do, but not experientially. He had never personally known the exquisite and exacting process of an atonement before. Thus, when the agony came in its fullness, it was so much, much worse than even He with his unique intellect had ever imagined! No wonder an angel appeared to strengthen him! (See Luke 22:43.)

The cumulative weight of all mortal sins—past, present, and future—pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11–12; Isa. 53:3–5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. “And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.” (Mark 14:35–36.)
“Willing to Submit” – Elder Neal A. Maxwell, May 1985