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When I desire in the wrong way, I fail to love things for their own sake. I fail to love them for what they actually are. I want them only as a means to satisfying my own hungers and solving my own problems.
“It is not our place to render a verdict on the state of another person's soul, and we will be far more effective (and better Christians) when we give people the benefit of the doubt. To simply assume that someone with doubts is guilty of some grave moral transgression or to cause that person to feel in any way unfaithful or unworthy merely because of his questions displays a lack of charity.”
― Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
― Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
“Some people's relationship to the divine is primarily mystical, for others it is experiential, and for other still it is intellectual. Spirituality is intensely individual, even for members of the same family or the same church.”
― Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
― Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
“Medicine has become the art of managing extreme complexity.”
― The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande: How to Get Things Right
― The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande: How to Get Things Right
“Mormonism is sui generis—that is to say, it offers its own unique set of questions and answers for the world that overlaps with but is not identical to any other set of questions and answers, whether those posed by modern science or creedal Christianity. What this also means, however, is that while Mormonism is internally coherent, intellectually rewarding, spiritually satisfying, and theologically profound, when viewed solely through any other lens it will appear flawed, foolish, and even scandalous.”
― Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
― Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
“Disbelievers can be good, solid people who love their spouse and children and live ethical, productive, meaningful lives. At the same time, disbelievers must understand that educated, informed, and sincere people can believe in the reality of Joseph Smith's revelations, the truth of the Book of Mormon, and the divine inspiration behind the church. They are not covering up secret doubts nor are they victims of false consciousness when they bear testimony. There are informed people who genuinely believe in and belong to the church. I am one of them.”
― Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
― Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
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