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Right is Right, no matter if it didn't come up with the desired result. Sometimes just knowing you stood your ground is the best reward.
"... Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof till long after the events transpire. If we seek first the kingdom of God, all good things will be added"
In all the important decisions in our lives, what is most important is to do the right thing. Second, and only slightly behind the first, is to do the right thing at the right time. People who do the right thing at the wrong time can be frustrated and ineffective. They can even be confused about whether they made the right choice when what was wrong was not their choice but their timing.
Dear Missionaries:
Once I heard a speaker tell the following story: A certain woman had long wanted to take a cruise and had saved her money to that end. Finally the day came when she was able to purchase a ticket for the much desired voyage.
As she carefully planned for the trip, she said to herself, ”Of course it would be wonderful to eat in the dining room of the boat. I won’t have money enough to eat all meals there, but I can take some cheese and cracker along for the first part of the trip, and then I can go to the dining room for the last meal. I’ll have money enough for one meal on the boat.”
In high spirits the good woman set out for the thrilling experience of her first water trip. At mealtime, after wistfully watching the other passengers file into the dining room, she would go off into some corner and eat her cheese and crackers, trying all the while not to be envious.
Then the last day arrived, and time for the final meal aboard ship. She went in with the other passengers “to eat in style,” as she put it.
It was one of life’s big moments for her, and she lingered long to enjoy it. When she has at last finished the meal, she sat patiently waiting for her check, but when none was presented to her, she beckoned the waiter and asked for it.
“Let me see your ticket, madam” said the waiter, and when she handed it to him, he gave it back with, “Madam, all your meals were included in the price of the ticket.”
Of that woman, without hesitation, we say: Why didn’t she look at her ticket? Or why didn’t some other passenger tell her she could eat on the boat?” But of ourselves what do we say?
Are we not all passengers on God’s big universal ocean liner? In our ignorance of what our ticket includes, do we, like the woman in the story, eat “cheese and crackers”?
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Your private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant. Your journal, like most others, will tell of problems as old as the world and how you dealt with them.
Author: President Spencer W. Kimball, Source: President Kimball Speaks Out on Personal Journals, Ensign, Dec...Saved by mlsscaress in right wrong challenges journal posterity record problems awareness experiences relations relevance 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness.
Is it not apparent that it is impossible for government to "create" rights in one person or group without destroying the rights of another? When it gives special privileges to one it must deny them to someone else. This result is unavoidable because when government creates a "right" in one person, it must at the same time create a "duty" in someone else. A right is without any substance unless there is someone against whom it can be enforced. But the one against whom it is enforced is saddled with a duty he did not formerly owe. The law compels him to do something or refrain from doing something and punishes him if he refuses. But you cannot compel a person against his will, nor can you punish him, without taking from him either his right to life, his right to liberty or his right to property. Thus the law has destroyed his rights in attempting to create "rights" in someone else.
Author: H. Verlan Andersen, Source: http://inspiredconstitution.org/mbfs/chapter_13.htmlSaved by cboyack in liberty government duty right force privilege 3 years ago[save this] [permalink]Anti-discrimination laws do not prevent discrimination, they compel discrimination. They do not protect the rights of either the employer or the employee but on the other hand destroy the rights of both by transferring control over jobs to government. There is no such thing as group justice. There is only individual justice. Rights and duties, punishments and rewards can be dispensed only according to individual merit and not at all according to membership or non-membership in any particular group. The idea of group justice is a mirage or an illusion because justice cannot be administered to groups. It is nothing but a clumsy fraud designed to increase the power of government at the expense of human rights.
Author: H. Verlan Andersen, Source: http://inspiredconstitution.org/mbfs/chapter_13.htmlSaved by cboyack in government society individual right law employment group discrimination 3 years ago[save this] [permalink]Thus, today, brethren, we are in danger of actually surrendering our personal and property rights. This development, if it does occur in full form, will be a sad tragedy for our people. We must recognize that PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE ESSENTIAL TO HUMAN LIBERTY.
Former United States Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland, from our own state, carefully stated it as follows:
"It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right TO property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual — the man — has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference; the RIGHT TO HIS LIFE, the RIGHT TO HIS LIBERTY, and the RIGHT TO HIS PROPERTY. The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially ONE right. To give a man his life, but deny him liberty, is to take from him all that makes life worth living. To give him liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave."
Author: David O. McKay, Source: Conf Rep. Oct. 1962, p. 6Saved by cboyack in constitution liberty government freedom slavery life individual right property 3 years ago[save this] [permalink]One who knows not what his rights are can never know when they are taken and is unable to defend them. He is like a man who believes he owns a piece of ground which his neighbor also claims, but he doesn’t know its boundaries. The neighbor continues to encroach further and further onto land he suspects is his, but since he is never certain where the boundary is, he cannot check the advance. Until he takes a firm position and says: "this far and no further," there is no line.
Author: H. Verlan Andersen, Source: http://inspiredconstitution.org/mbfs/chapter_6.htmlSaved by cboyack in defense constitution liberty ignorance right knowledge 3 years ago[save this] [permalink]Can't find a good quote on right? Try searching ScriptureTag!