Millennium and the Long View

 Many of the most important deprivations of mortality will be set right in the Millennium, which is the time for fulfilling all that is incomplete in the great plan of happiness for all of our Father’s worthy children. We know that will be true of temple ordinances. I believe it will also be true of family relationships and experiences.

I pray that we will not let the challenges and temporary diversions of mortality cause us to forget our covenants and lose sight of our eternal destiny. We who know God’s plan for his children, we who have covenanted to participate, have a clear responsibility. We must desire to do what is right, and we must do all that we can in our own circumstances in mortality.

“The Great Plan of Happiness”

October 1993

1990–1999

Dallin H. Oaks

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1993/10/the-great-plan-of-happiness?lang=eng&verse=#p

If some are not resolved to the satisfaction of everyone, perhaps they constitute part of the cross Jesus said we would have to take up in order to follow Him.

Of course, in our present day, tremendously difficult issues face any disciple of Jesus Christ. The leaders of this Church are giving their lives to seeking the Lord’s guidance in the resolution of these challenges. If some are not resolved to the satisfaction of everyone, perhaps they constitute part of the cross Jesus said we would have to take up in order to follow Him. It is precisely because there would be dark days and difficult issues that God promised He would, out of a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, guide prophets, give an iron rod, open a narrow gate leading to a strait path, and above all grant us the power to finish the course.

So please, please, stay for the whole feast even if you are not sure about the broccoli. Bask in His light and lend your candle to the cause. They have it right in Primary: Jesus really does “[want you] for a sunbeam.”

 Fear Not: Believe Only!

April 2022

General Conference

Jeffrey R. Holland

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2022/04/23holland?lang=eng&verse=#p

In the scriptures we find principles of truth that will resolve every confusion and every problem and every dilemma that will face the human family or any individual in it

If your students are acquainted with the revelations, there is no question—personal or social or political or occupational—that need go unanswered. Therein is contained the fulness of the everlasting gospel. Therein we find principles of truth that will resolve every confusion and every problem and every dilemma that will face the human family or any individual in it” (Boyd K. Packer, “Teach the Scriptures” [address to Church Educational System religious educators, Oct. 14, 1977], 3–4).

Overview of the Book of Mormon

“Even if we have strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. … If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father’s plan would be frustrated.”

“Even if we have strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. … If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father’s plan would be frustrated.”

David A. Bednar
Accepting the Lord's Will and Timing
Ensign August 2016

Hard is the Constant...The Variable Is Our Reaction to the Hard

Hard is the constant! We all have challenges. The variable is our reaction to the hard.”

Stanley G. Ellis
Ensign Novmeber 2017 p 113

Jesus Did Not Teach How to Overcome the Mortal Challenges or Political Oppression of His Day

But just as Jesus did not teach how to overcome the mortal challenges or political oppression of His day, He usually inspires His modern servants to speak about what we must do to reform our personal lives to prepare us to return to our heavenly home.
General Conference, APRIL 2015,  The Parable of the Sower,  Dallin H. Oaks

Do Not Pray For Task Equal to Your Abilities, But Pray for Abilities Equal to Your Tasks

Do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.

Thomas S. Monson, Three Goals to Guide You, October 2007 General Conference