Thanks Be To God (Nelson)

Thanks Be To God
Russell M. Nelson
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
April 2012 Conference
Talk: http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/thanks-be-to-god?lang=eng

Highlights to me:

*Marriage and family are ordained of God, and the family is the most important social unit in time and eternity.

*A loving God has provided His children with physical and spiritual gifts. Each organ of the body is a wondrous gift from God—from the eyes to the heart and to the body’s remarkable ability to heal and renew itself.


* Yet some people erroneously think that these marvelous physical attributes happened by chance or resulted from a big bang somewhere,” he said. “Ask yourself, ‘Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?’ The likelihood is most remote. But if so, it could never heal its own torn pages or reproduce its own newer editions.


*Our spirits existed in the premortal realm and will continue to live after the body dies. The spirit provides the body with animation and personality. In this life and in the next, spirit and body, when joined together, become a living soul of supernal worth.


*The attributes by which we shall be judged one day are all spiritual. These include love, virtue, integrity, compassion, and service to others. Your spirit, coupled with and housed in your body, is able to develop and manifest these attributes in ways that are vital to you eternal progression.