Posts tagged opposition
Posts tagged opposition
Hope Ya Know, We Had a Hard Time
This life is not always easy, nor was it meant to be; it is a time of testing and proving. At times when we may feel to say, Hope you know, I had a hard time, we can be assured that Jesus Christ is there and we are safe in His loving arms.
For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my first-born in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.
Satan is very apt at using any momentum he has in order to make it look as though he has already prevailed.
Neal A. Maxwell, Things as They Really Are (via buggiek)
(other Maxwell quotes can be found here; his talks and articles here)
The Book of Mormon: Building the Ship
The Lord instructs Nephi to build a ship. He reveals the design and method for making the ship to Nephi. Laman and Lemuel mock Nephi for attempting to build a ship.
Reference: The First Book of Nephi (1 Nephi)