I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.
Those who own much have much to fear.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.