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What is the best thing you have to devote to the Kingdom of God? It is the talents God has given you.
​Discourses of Brigham Young, 445

Your Refined Heavenly Home

12/27/2017

 
Your Refined Heavenly Home
Elder Douglas L. Callister
Of the Seventy
From a devotional address given at Brigham Young University September 19, 2006

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The nearer we get to God, the more easily our spirits are touched by refined and beautiful things. If we could part the veil and observe our heavenly home, we would be impressed with the cultivated minds and hearts of those who so happily live there. I imagine that our heavenly parents are exquisitely refined. In this great gospel of emulation, one of the purposes of our earthly probation is to become like them in every conceivable way so that we may be comfortable in the presence of heavenly parentage and, in the language of Enos, see their faces “with pleasure.”

Brigham Young said: “We are trying to be the image of those who live in heaven; we are trying to pattern after them, to look like them, to walk and talk like them.” To prepare us to do this, the 13th article of faith encourages: “If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.” Refinement is a companion to developed spirituality. Refinement and spirituality are two strings drawn by the same bow.

For the complete address click here: Your Refined Heavenly Home

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