- SEPTEMBER 2016
- PRACTICE PURE RELIGION
Practice Pure Religion
By Elder Don R. Clarke
Served as a General Authority Seventy from 2006 to 2015
From a devotional address, “Pure Religion,” given at Brigham Young University on January 13, 2015. For the full address, go to speeches.byu.edu.
The day missionaries start to care more about others than themselves, they become happy. It is that way for all of us. Our lives will always be happier if we care for and love others.
The opposite of caring for others is thinking about oneself: my car, my studies, my job, my problems. When it is always about us, our connection with heaven isn’t as strong as it could be....
if you want to be happy, feel the Holy Ghost, and grow closer to the Savior, then practice pure religion. ...
Does the Lord trust us to be an answer to someone else’s prayer? Can He count on us to follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost? The more we follow the Spirit’s promptings, the more opportunities the Lord will present to us to be the answer to someone else’s prayer....
As we practice pure religion by visiting and caring for widows, helping orphans, caring for the poor and needy, and feeding His lambs and sheep, we will show the Savior that we love Him! As we do this, we will be happy, feel the Holy Ghost, and feel closer to Him.
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