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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
“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