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"The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings - it makes us patient, sensitive, and God-like.  It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." -Helen Keller

Moses 1:39, God progresses through us.  As we become more god-like, God is more glorified.

Satan has nothing in Jesus Christ.  Not one cell in Christ's body or being has evil in it - that's how only through Christ can we be made pure.

Disobedience caused the Fall.  Disobedience caused man to be cast out of God's presence.  The At-one-ment is the only thing to take us back to God's presence and present us in a pure state.

"Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your home... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.  Be the living expression of God's kindness.  Kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting." -Mother Theresa

Sacrament meeting should be so sacred and holy that you can pierce the veil, learn heavenly things, revisit the Garden of Gethsemane, and witness the love of your Savior.

Having gone to Gethsemane, and being able to revisit it, you learn what the true sweetness of the Atonement tastes like.

With all the bitterness that happened in the Garden, in every fiber, in every cell is found sweetness.

"Sometimes the Lord calms the storm but sometimes the Lord lets the storm rage and calms His child.  Either way, I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.  Those who fearfully remain in safe harbors do not come to know the Maker and Master of the seas, nor the Captain of their souls." -hymn, Mike King

Luke 22:43-44, Christ grew from Prayer to Prayer.  It wasn't until after Michael came "strengthening him", or in other words, giving Him perspective, reminding Him why exactly He was doing what He was doing - or in other terms, having an at-one-ment with each one of us - after that eternity-stopping period, Christ prayed "more earnestly".  After seeing each of us individually, Christ prayed more earnestly.  This ever eternal concept brings a deeper meaning to the song title "I feel my Savior's love".

There's no greater satisfaction than knowing that your partner is your partner, and only your partner, and won't be anyone else's partner. (When talking about fidelity in marriage)

Everything Christ took upon Himself was trying to enter His heart.  He would not let the sinful blood enter into His heart, so it came out the pores. (Those in the medical field know that if you keep blood from going to the heart, it will come out the pores)

Because we allow that wicked blood into our hearts, our hearts need to be broken so Christ and the Spirit can enter, purify, and restore them.

Gethsemane means olive press.  Ultimately, Gethsemane was the pressing out of the natural man.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as, to be hated, needs but to be seen; yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace." -Alexander Pope

Everyone focuses on the part where the Father takes His Spirit away from His Son, but we need to focus on the fact that we don't have to make our journey alone.

Abide: to endure, withstand without yielding; to put up with; to pay the price for, suffer the penalty for; to wait for.

There's great power in denying yourself.