| President Gordon B. Hinckley on Standards for Decisions --------------------------------------------- "It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living.... Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions. "By what standards shall we make those decisions? By the standards of CAESAR, meaning the standards of the state as politicians have established those standards? By the standards of the CIRCUS, meaning the standards of the self-seeking masses? ... "Or shall we make our decisions by the standards of CHRIST, the Son of God, who came in the meridian of time, as the one true lawgiver? "What are the standards by which you will govern your life? ... "I should like to suggest three standards by which to judge each of the decisions that determine the behavior patterns of your lives. These standards are so simple as to appear elementary, but I believe their faithful observance will provide a set of moral imperatives by which to govern without argument or equivocation each of our actions and which will bring unmatched rewards. They are: "Does it enrich the mind? "Does it discipline and strengthen the body? "Does it nourish the spirit?" (Gordon B. Hinckley, "Caesar, Circus, or Christ?", BYU Devotional, October 26, 1965) |