"Why do ye....notice them not?"

Beggar from the group of Saint Elisabeth. Sculpture by Rudolf Moroder, polychromed by Christian Delago

In the closing chapters of the Book of Mormon,  Moroni is talking to believers in our day and pleading with us to take a look at ourselves and our circumstances.  He poses this very pointed question:

 " Why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life, and yet suffer the hungry, and the needy, and the naked, and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you, and notice them not?"

Each time I read that verse it gives me definite pause.  I wonder how I and each of us will answer that question when we met Moroni before the "pleasing bar of the great Jehovah."  

Ref: Mormon 8:39  and Moroni 10:34

Forbes Thought Of The Day

“ A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. ”

— Winston Churchill

Choice....

Learning by Faith

Quotes from Lorenzo Snow:

"In this system of religion that you and I have received there is something grand and glorious, and something new to learn every day, that is of great value. And it is not only our privilege but it is necessary that we receive these things and gather these new ideas."

"The whole idea of Mormonism is improvement—mentally, physically, morally and spiritually. No half-way education suffices for the Latter-day Saint."

"There are some who do not learn, and who do not improve as fast as they might, because their eyes and their hearts are not upon God; they do not reflect, neither do they have that knowledge which they might have; they miss a good deal which they might receive. We have got to obtain knowledge before we obtain permanent happiness; we have got to be wide awake in the things of God."

"Though we may now neglect to improve our time, to brighten up our intellectual faculties, we shall be obliged to improve them sometime. We have got so much ground to walk over, and if we fail to travel to-day, we shall have so much more to travel to-morrow."

Interesting thought....

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."”
--Isaac Asimov


Worth thinking about as long as we are willing to apply humility to our knowledge.