Proximity Priniciple

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- Frank Tibolt

Setting Goals

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee

Final Exam Time

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Last Lectures

Some of the most classic one line sermons come from the last lectures of the prophets. For example, Jacob in the Book of Mormon said "O be wise; what can I say more?" (verse 12 of Jacob 6) In other words, Be Wise - What more can I say?

Nephi in his last words said "for thus hath the Lord commanded me, and I must obey." (verse 15, 2 Ne. 33)

Statistics

The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
- Evan Esar

Solution for Contention - Scriptures

I learned something from S. Dilworth Young that I should have known before. I reported that in a stake I found contention. I really didn't known how to handle it. Brother Young said, "The way you handle that is to read the scriptures." Then he said, "If in a Sunday School class there is a problem and they are debating over an issue, have them read the scriptures."

I said, "What scriptures?"

He said, "It doesn't matter. It really doesn't. Just have them read the scriptures."

There is great, consoling medication in the scriptures.

NEW MISSION PRESIDENTS' SEMINAR—1999

Missionaries and Doctrine
President Boyd K. Packer
Tuesday, 22 June 1999

Doctrine, Principles, Applications

"As you teach appropriate doctrine and help explain how the Lord communicates through the Spirit, your students will experience being led by the Spirit. They will learn principles upon which such communication is based. As they apply these principles, they will make correct choices." (Richard G. Scott)