Bite-size Beliefs from General Conference (Saturday)

During General Conference on Saturday I listened for ‘bite-size’ beliefs. It’s amazing how many there were. Each of these could be a separate blog post, lesson, and discussion. They are profound yet simple.

You can watch the conference here: www.lds.org

Here is a sampling:

• People need to feel welcome and part of a group for the group to be more effective in their purpose.
• What’s the point of a group if it has no purpose? That’s why all groups have a purpose.
• Being in a world that is constantly changing gives us the opportunity to make new decisions that keep us on the right path.
• Desire leads to behavior.
• Learning cannot be forced.
• Helping others helps ourselves.
• Teachers facilitate learning.
• When we do wrong we place a burden on our self.
• Burdens help prepare us for something better.
• Burdens give us experience to have empathy toward others.
• Think, feel, and do are what teachers should help their students with.
• You can do what seems impossible through belief in God.
• Express love and show it frequently to live peacefully in our families.
• Consistency in doing small things leads to accomplishing great things.
• Love at the center of our family, church, and livelihood yields more meaning in those things.
• What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are and who we will become.
• The greatest of all good things is God.
• The first thing to do for something difficult is to try.
• Wise parents condition some of the ‘gifts’ the give their children on their obedience.
• How to know the truth? The Spirit of God.
• We owe everything to the Savior.
• Our needs today are the same needs people had anciently.
• Temperance is a divine attribute.
• Temperance (self control) is required to teach and lead others.
• A temperate person is a strong person.
• Repentance brings peace into our life.
• If we don’t use our agency wisely we’ll end up on the side of evil.
• Engage is something good and it will change you for the good.
• When things get bad they will get better. Winter always gives way to Spring.
• Work hard and things will get better.
• Work keeps us from dwelling on the difficulties of our circumstances.
• Work is an antidote to anxiety.
• Gain a reputation for excellence in all we do.
• It’s in the doing, not just the thinking, where we accomplish our goals.
• Retirement is not part of the Lord’s plan of happiness.
• A person is a fool that takes an insult where one wasn’t intended.
• No one can make us angry, it’s a choice.