Lesson Quotes:
Elder Bruce R. McConkie
“Inns were square buildings open inside, in which travelers commonly put up for the night; back parts of these erections were used as stables. Mary’s condition probably required slow travel so that the inns were all filled upon their arrival in Bethlehem, necessitating their use of the stable part of one of them for shelter. It was the traveling hosts of Judah generally, not just an innkeeper or an isolated few persons, who withheld shelter from Joseph and Mary. Though her state was apparent, the other travelers—lacking in courtesy, compassion, and refinement—would not give way so she could be cared for more conveniently and commodiously. This rude rejection was but prelude to the coming day when these same people and their children after them would reject to their eternal sorrow the Lord who that night began mortality under the most lowly circumstances.”
Elder Boyd K. Packer
“As I meet young people around the Church, they are always saying, “When will my parents ever think I have enough maturity to act for myself?” I know when with my family… I know that they are ready for full freedom in any field of endeavor the very minute they stop resenting supervision. At that moment I can back off, let them go alone, and really just be there to respond if they come for help… We should put ourselves in a position before our Father in Heaven and say, individually, “I do not want to do what I want to do. I want to do what Thou wouldst have me do.” Suddenly, like any father, the Lord could say, “Well, there is one more of my children almost free from the need of constant supervision.” (“That All May Be Edified,” 254, 257)
Elder Bruce R. McConkie
“Inns were square buildings open inside, in which travelers commonly put up for the night; back parts of these erections were used as stables. Mary’s condition probably required slow travel so that the inns were all filled upon their arrival in Bethlehem, necessitating their use of the stable part of one of them for shelter. It was the traveling hosts of Judah generally, not just an innkeeper or an isolated few persons, who withheld shelter from Joseph and Mary. Though her state was apparent, the other travelers—lacking in courtesy, compassion, and refinement—would not give way so she could be cared for more conveniently and commodiously. This rude rejection was but prelude to the coming day when these same people and their children after them would reject to their eternal sorrow the Lord who that night began mortality under the most lowly circumstances.”
Elder Boyd K. Packer
“As I meet young people around the Church, they are always saying, “When will my parents ever think I have enough maturity to act for myself?” I know when with my family… I know that they are ready for full freedom in any field of endeavor the very minute they stop resenting supervision. At that moment I can back off, let them go alone, and really just be there to respond if they come for help… We should put ourselves in a position before our Father in Heaven and say, individually, “I do not want to do what I want to do. I want to do what Thou wouldst have me do.” Suddenly, like any father, the Lord could say, “Well, there is one more of my children almost free from the need of constant supervision.” (“That All May Be Edified,” 254, 257)
Elder David A. Bednar
“We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny. The Lord’s pattern for spiritual development is ‘line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little’ (2 Nephi 28:30). Small, steady, incremental spiritual improvements are the steps the Lord would have us take. Preparing to walk guiltless before God is one of the primary purposes of mortality and the pursuit of a lifetime; it does not result from sporadic spurts of intense spiritual activity.” (“Clean Hands and a Pure Heart,” CR, Oct 2007).
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