Best LDS talks ever

[_schreech]

"Ye must be pickled again" - http://LDS.org/general-conference/2007/04/ye-must-be-born-again?lang=eng

[_just me]

Favorites? The ones by Elder Uchtdorf.

Me too.

[_quaker]

"The Man of Christ" - Neal Maxwell

[_Buffalo]

Favorites? The ones by Elder Uchtdorf.

His are usually good, but someone needs to tap him on the shoulder and say enough already with the airplane analogies

[_just me]

Favorites? The ones by Elder Uchtdorf.

His are usually good, but someone needs to tap him on the shoulder and say enough already with the airplane analogies

I giggled when flipping through this months The Friend. There was an article by Deter and, sure enough, it started with a WWII airplane story.

[_sethpayne]

What are some of your favorite talks?

"Peacable Things of the Kingdom"

http://www.mormonstudies.net/html/holla ... hings.html

My favorite talk of all time.

[_DarkHelmet]

My favorite was Marky Mark Petersen's steps to overcoming masturbation. That's a hit with both members and non-members.

[_Blixa]

"Can We Manipulate the Past?" Fawn Brodie, as well as what she called her "Two and a half minute acceptance speech" for the Utah Historical Society's Fellow Award

"Is There No Help for the Widow's Son?" Reed Durham

"The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology," Lavina Fielding Anderson

"On Being a Mormon Historian," D. Michael Quinn

"Let's Preserve Our Records," Juanita Brooks (I remember this essay as originating as a speech for the Utah Historical Society, but I may be wrong)

just a few off the top of my head...

[_RayAgostini]

Spencer W. Kimball, "Strengthening the Family—the Basic Unit of the Church" (April 1978), also known as Don't kill the little birds.

[_karl61]

Dean L. Larsen

The Peaceable Things Of The Kingdom.


http://speeches.BYU.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6944




For some reason, one of the most common methods many of us use to motivate is to develop feelings of guilt within ourselves or in others for whom we have a responsibility. Guilt feelings are a natural product of an injured conscience. When we willfully violate a valid code of conduct, we suffer the consequences of our infraction in the internal conflict that occurs within our own souls. Such feelings, painful and remorseful though they may be, can generate the desire to repent and improve. They can be useful, constructive emotions that propel us forward to greater perfection. But purposefully generating feelings of guilt over some shortcoming as a means of motivating action or promoting more compliant behavior is rarely productive. The devastating effect of a child's constantly being told that he is stupid, lazy, or ugly has been well documented in behavioral studies. When anyone's honest effort to do better or to be better is met by debilitating criticism, real motivation and incentive are often destroyed. All of us profit from encouragement and from occasional constructive correction. But we must be helped to feel that we are valued and appreciated in spite of our shortcomings.

I have been appalled when I have heard leaders attempt to extort greater devotion and exertion from young missionaries by telling them they will never rise above the level of their performance on their missions. This is foolishness. I have lived long enough to see

many contradictions to this contention. It is as though our performance in any given period of our lives rivets us forever to an inescapable course. If this were a true principle, repentance and reformation would be impossible.