Lance B. Wickman Quotes

• Grief is the natural by-product of love. One cannot selflessly love another person and not grieve at his suffering or eventual death. The only way to avoid the grief would be to not experience the love; and it is love that gives life its richness and meaning.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Grief, Grieving, Giving

  "But If Not". Lance B. Wickman's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2002.

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• Justice - there is an air of nobility about the word. It calls to mind other words like equity, fairness, and truth. It speaks of honor and exactness. It speaks of righteousness. But, sadly, in today's world its application is often anything but noble, honorable, or righteous.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Truth, Air, Justice

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• Realmente somos inmortales en el sentido de que la Expiación de Cristo vence a la muerte, tanto física como espiritual. Y siempre que hayamos vivido Hoy de tal manera que tengamos derecho a la gracia purificadora de la Expiación, viviremos para siempre con Dios. Esta vida no es tanto un tiempo para obtener y acumular como para dar y llegar a ser. La mortalidad es el campo de batalla en el que se enfrentan la justicia y la misericordia. Pero no es necesario que se enfrenten como adversarios, porque están reconciliados en la expiación de Jesucristo para todos los que usan sabiamente el Hoy.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Espiritual, Jesús, Dar

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• Vivimos en una época muy ensimismada. Supongo que es naturalmente humano pensar que mis propios problemas son de algún modo mayores que los de los demás. Creo que cuando cualquiera de nosotros empieza a pensar así, sería bueno mirar más allá de nosotros mismos. ¿Quién soy yo para decir que soy más discapacitado o que sufro más que otra persona?

  Lance B. Wickman

  Thinking, Self, Suffering

  Fuente: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• The willingness to turn to the Savior, the opportunity of going to sacrament service on a Sunday, and really participating in the ordinance of the sacrament... listening to the prayers, partaking of those sacred emblems. Those are opportunities that really help us to come within the ambit of the Savior's Atonement.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Prayer, Sunday, Opportunity

  Fuente: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• There's really no question that there is an anguish associated with the inability to marry in this life. We feel for someone that has that anguish. I feel for somebody that has that anguish. But it's not limited to someone who has same-gender attraction.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Inability, Gender, This Life

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• Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are doing so simply for their own purposes.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Purpose, Institutions, Mankind

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• There is no such thing in the Lord's eyes as something called same-gender marriage.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Eye, Lord, Gender

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• One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that therefore acting in accordance with that inclination is inevitable. That's contrary to our very nature as the Lord has revealed to us. We do have the power to control our behavior.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Thinking, Age, Acting

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• Isn't it really the significance of the Atonement in a person's life? Doesn't the Atonement really begin to mean something to a person when he or she is trying to face down the challenges of living, whether they be temptations or limitations?

  Lance B. Wickman

  Mean, Temptation, Challenges

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• What we look forward to, and the great promise of the gospel, is that whatever our inclinations are here, whatever our shortcomings are here, whatever the hindrances to our enjoying a fullness of joy here, we have the Lord's assurance for every one of us that those in due course will be removed. We just need to remain faithful.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Joy, Faithful, Promise

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• Si puedo mantenerme digno aquí, si puedo ser fiel a los mandamientos del Evangelio, si puedo mantener los pactos que he hecho, las bendiciones de exaltación y vida eterna que el Padre Celestial ofrece a todos Sus hijos se aplican a mí. Todas las bendiciones -incluido el matrimonio eterno- son y serán mías a su debido tiempo.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Children, Father, Blessing

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• The good news for somebody who is struggling with same-gender attraction is this: It is that 'I'm not stuck with it forever.' It's just now. Admittedly, for each one of us, it's hard to look beyond the 'now' sometimes. But nonetheless, if you see mortality as now, it's only during this season.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Struggle, Forever, Looks

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• La atracción entre personas del mismo sexo no existía en la vida preterrenal y tampoco existirá en la próxima vida. Es una circunstancia que por cualquier razón o razones parece aplicarse ahora mismo en la mortalidad, en este nano-segundo de nuestra existencia eterna.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Earth Life, Next, Reason

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• What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do.'

  Lance B. Wickman

  What Matters, Agency, Recognition

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• Why somebody has a same-gender attraction... who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.

  Lance B. Wickman

  What Matters, Important, Facts

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• What happens in somebody's house down the street does in very deed have an effect on what happens in my house and how it's treated.

  Lance B. Wickman

  House, Deeds, Doe

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• The more a person can look beyond gender orientation, the happier and more fulfilling life is likely to be.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Life Is Like, Looks, Gender

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• [Genderless marriage] is contrary to God's law, to revealed Word. Scripture, ancient and modern, could not be clearer on the definition that the Lord and His agents have given to marriage down through the dispensations.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Law, Definitions, Scripture

  Fuente: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Marriage is a unified institution. Marriage means a committed, legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. That's what it means. That's what it means in the revelations. That's what it means in the secular law. You cannot have that marriage coexisting institutionally with something else called same-gender marriage. It simply is a definitional impossibility.

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  Media, Hombres, Ley

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• Either there is marriage as it is now defined and as defined by the Lord, or there is what could thus be described as genderless marriage. The latter is abhorrent to God, who, as we've been discussing, Himself described what marriage is - between a man and a woman.

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  Men, Abhorrent, Lord

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• If you have some legally sanctioned relationship with the bundle of legal rights traditionally belonging to marriage and governing authority has slapped a label on it, whether it is civil union or domestic partnership or whatever label it's given, it is nonetheless tantamount to marriage.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Rights, Unions, Labels

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• There are numbers of different types of partnerships or pairings that may exist in society that aren't same-gender sexual relationships that provide for some right that we have no objection to. All that said... there may be on occasion some specific rights that we would be concerned about being granted to those in a same-gender relationship. Adoption is one that comes to mind, simply because that is a right which has been historically, doctrinally associated so closely with marriage and family.

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  Numbers, Rights, Adoption

  Fuente: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Children deserve to be reared in a home with a father and a mother.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Madre, hijos, padre

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• It's not the Church that has made the issue of marriage a matter of federal law. Those who are vigorously advocating for something called same-gender marriage have essentially put that potato on the fork. They're the ones who have created a situation whereby the law of the land, one way or the other, is going to address this issue of marriage. This is not a situation where the Church has elected to take the matter into the legal arena or into the political arena. It's already there.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Land, Issues, Law

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