Desire to Become

From Sunday’s Relief Society lesson taught by Sister Ellison – Diagrams included!

Quotes from the Talk: Desire, Dallin H. Oaks, April 2011 General Conference Address

“I hope each of us will search our hearts to determine what we really desire and how we rank our most important desires.”

“Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and   choices determine our actions. The desires we act on determine our changing, our achieving, and our becoming.”

“When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.”

“In his sermon on faith, Alma teaches that faith can begin with “no more than [a] desire to believe” if we will “let this desire work in [us]” (Alma 32:27).”

“We should remember that righteous desires cannot be superficial, impulsive, or temporary. They must be heartfelt, unwavering, and permanent. So motivated, we will seek for that condition described by the Prophet Joseph Smith, where we have “overcome the evils of [our lives] and lost every desire for sin.” ⁵ That is a very personal decision. As Elder Neal A. Maxwell said: “When people are described as ‘having lost their desire for sin,’ it is they, and they only, who deliberately decided to lose those wrong desires by being willing to ‘give away all [their] sins’ in order to know God.” “Therefore, what we insistently desire, over time, is what we will eventually become and what we will receive in eternity.”  Neal A. Maxwell, “According to the Desire of [Our] Hearts,” Ensign, Nov. 1996, 22, 21.

Similar message on the topic:

What manner of men ought ye to be?, Lynn G Robbins, April 2011 General Conference Address