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(1/25/01)
"The capacity the Lord looks for in us is that ability to perform to
the degree that we become profitable servants unto him. The Lord has
given us talents, gifts, and blessings. He expects us to magnify them
and to use them in the service of others if he is to trust us." —
Robert E. Wells, "The C's of Spirituality," Ensign, Nov. 1978, p.
24–25
(1/26/01)
"Whether we descend from generations in the Church or are the first
link in the generational chain, we have a responsibility to convey to
our posterity a heritage of faith, manifest through our daily actions.
Those who are newly converted members have a particularly great
opportunity to become the pioneers for their ancestors and for their
posterity." — Stephen B. Oveson, "Our Legacy," Ensign, Nov. 1999, p.
30
(1/27/01)
"President John Taylor cautioned us: 'If you do not magnify your
callings, God will hold you responsible for those whom you might have
saved had you done your duty.'" — Thomas S. Monson, "Duty Calls,"
Ensign, May 1996, p. 43
(1/28/01)
"When one holds the priesthood of God, he never knows when his moment
of service may come. The challenge is to be ready to serve." — Thomas
S. Monson, "The Priesthood in Action," Ensign, Nov. 1992, p. 48
(1/29/01)
"I was present at a solemn assembly when David O. McKay was sustained
as President of the Church. President J. Reuben Clark Jr., who had
served as First Counselor to two Presidents, was then sustained as
Second Counselor to President McKay. Sensitive to the possibility that
some might think that he had been demoted, President Clark said: 'In
the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. In the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one takes the place to
which one is duly called, which place one neither seeks nor
declines.'" — Boyd K. Packer, "Called to Serve," Ensign, Nov. 1997, p.
7
(3/12/04)
"To every officer, to every teacher in this Church who acts in a
priesthood office, there comes the sacred responsibility of magnifying
that priesthood calling. Each of us is responsible for the welfare and
the growth and development of others. We do not live only unto
ourselves. If we are to magnify our callings, we cannot live only unto
ourselves. As we serve with diligence, as we teach with faith and
testimony, as we lift and strengthen and build convictions of
righteousness in those whose lives we touch, we magnify our
priesthood. To live only unto ourselves, on the other hand, to serve
grudgingly, to give less than our best effort to our duty, diminishes
our priesthood just as looking through the wrong lenses of binoculars
reduces the image and makes more distant the object." - Gordon B.
Hinckley, "Magnify
Your
Calling," Ensign, May 1989, p. 47
(4/23/05)
"What does it mean to magnify a calling? It means to build it up in
dignity and importance, to make it honorable and commendable in the
eyes of all men, to enlarge and strengthen it, to let the light of
heaven shine through it to the view of other men.
And how does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service
that pertains to it." - Thomas S. Monson, "The
Sacred
Call of Service," General Conference, April 2005
3/20/07
"In the Masters service, you will come to know and love Him. You will,
if you persevere in prayer and faithful service, begin to sense that
the Holy Ghost has become a companion. Many of us have for a period
given such service and felt that companionship. If you think back on
that time, you will remember that there were changes in you. The
temptation to do evil seemed to lessen. The desire to do good
increased. Those who knew you best and loved you may have said, 'You
have become more kind, more patient. You don't seem to be the same
person.'
"You weren't the same person because the Atonement of Jesus Christ is
real. And the promise is real that we can become new, changed, and
better. And we can become stronger for the tests of life. We then go
in the strength of the Lord, a strength developed in His service. He
goes with us. And in time we become His tested and strengthened
disciples." - Henry B. Eyring, "In
the Strength of the Lord," Ensign (CR), May 2004, p.16
8/2/09
“The
passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change
men’s lives-our lives and the lives of those with whom we labor. As He
said to the dead Lazarus, so He says today: ‘Come forth.’ Come forth
from the despair of doubt. Come forth from the sorrow of sin. Come
forth from the death of disbelief. Come forth to a newness of life.
Come forth.
“We will discover that those whom we serve, who have felt through our labors the touch of the Master’s hand, somehow cannot explain the change which comes into their lives. There is a desire to serve faithfully, to walk humbly, and to live more like the Savior. Having received their spiritual eyesight and glimpsed the promises of eternity, they echo the words of the blind man to whom Jesus restored sight, who said, ‘One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.’” - Thomas S. Monson, “To the Rescue,” Ensign (CR), May 2001, p. 48
6/16/14
I,
like many of you, have had numerous callings in the Church. Some
have been easier for me than others, but I have tried to magnify
each one. But does the phrase “magnify your calling” ever make you
nervous? It has worried me! Recently I read a talk in which
President Thomas S. Monson said on the subject: “And how does one
magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to
it” (“Priesthood
Power,” Liahona, Jan. 2000, 60; Ensign, Nov. 1999, 51). - Kathleen
H. Hughes, “Out
of Small Things,” Ensign (CR) November 2004
1/15/15
Remember that your entire life is
a mission and that each new phase of it can be richly rewarding as
you magnify your talents and take advantage of your opportunities. -
Ezra Taft Benson, “To
the Single Adult Brethren of the Church,” Ensign (CR) April
1988
2/10/16
You can have the utmost assurance that your power will be multiplied
many times by the Lord. All He asks is that you give your best
effort and your whole heart. Do it cheerfully and with the prayer of
faith. The Father and His Beloved Son will send the Holy Ghost as
your companion to guide you. Your efforts will be magnified in the
lives of the people you serve. And when you look back on what may
now seem trying times of service and sacrifice, the sacrifice will
have become a blessing, and you will know that you have seen the arm
of God lifting those you served for Him, and lifting you. - Henry
B. Eyring, "Rise
to Your Call," Ensign (CR), November 2002, p.75