Saved in a File

                     

                      I'm cleaning out and organizing computer files.  

                     Here are items from my file,  "Ideas, Talks, Art."  --DSM

                                            The Departure of the Mayflower  N.C.Wyeth

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Attributes of Jesus Christ:

Without Sin

“… The power of His Atonement can erase the effects of sin in us. . .   It is as if we had not succumbed, as if we had not yielded to temptation.

“As we endeavor day by day and week by week to follow the path of Christ, our spirit asserts its preeminence, the battle within subsides, and temptations cease to trouble.” –Elder Christofferson 

 How does being pure differ from being perfect?

                                

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  My file has a pdf of "Why Giving Matters," a talk given at BYU in 2009 by a Catholic academic.  The pdf is too many pages to post here, so here's a link to the talk.  I really like it. I hope you read it!!!  Or listen to it. --DSM

Why Giving Matters by Arthur Brooks, 2009

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         In the words of the Lord to Joshua, brethren, “Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God [will be] with thee whithersoever thou goest” (Josh. 1:9).

            If of thine mortal goods thou art bereft,

            And of thy slender store two loaves

            alone to thee are left,

            Sell one, and with the dole

            Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

        Saadi of Shiraz, Persia  c.1250 AD