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(9/10/04)
"Someone once said, 'If you come to a fork in the road, take it.' But it
doesn't work that way. The Savior said, 'No man can serve two masters: for
either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the
one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.' (Matt
6:24.) Today many of us are trying to serve two masters-the Lord and our own
selfish interests-without offending the devil. The influence of God, our Eternal
Father, urges us, pleads us, and inspires us to follow him. In contrast the
power of Satan urges us to disbelieve and disregard God's commandments." -
James E. Faust, "Serving
the Lord and Resisting the Devil," Ensign, September 1995, p. 2
(9/11/04)
"When Gladstone
was asked the secret of his brilliant career, he answered with one word:
'Concentration.' Concentration is achieved by limiting the scope. Emerson
said: 'The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation'
(The Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co.,
1929, p. 542). Jesus was limiting the scope when he cautioned us to keep our eye
single (see D&C 4:5). A
single vision should also have a narrow focus. Jesus proclaimed this same
philosophy when he said: 'No man can serve two masters' (Matt.
6:24)." - Sterling W. Sill, "The
Strait Gate," Ensign, July 1980, p. 6