A CHANGING HEART

A CHANGING HEART



http://emp.byui.edu/CALLT/Quotes/A%20Changing%20Heart.htm



ZION:

TO BECOME 
PURE IN HEART

"Zion is the pure in heart; we gain purity of heart by baptism and by obedience."

"Zion is people; Zion is the saints of God; Zion is those who have been baptized; Zion is those who have received the Holy Ghost; Zion is those who keep the commandments; Zion is the righteous."

"To be of Zion, --the pure in heart – one must come 'out of the world.' This does not mean necessarily a change of residence; it means a change of heart.

To come out of the world, one must forsake the philosophy of the world and… adopt the philosophy of Zion."

"Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's. When we direct our pride toward God, it is in the spirit of 'my will and not thine be done.' …The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives…

The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's… Pride is the universal sin, the great vice… [It] is the great stumbling block to Zion."

"Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so pride is in all our sins."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: It eats up every possibility of love, or contentment or even common sense."

"The antidote for pride is humility --- meekness, submissiveness. It is the broken heart and contrite spirit…God will have a humble people. We can either choose to be humble or we can be compelled to be humble."

"God had often sealed up the Heavens because of coveteousness in the church."

"When we conclude to 
make a Zion we will 
make it, and this work commences in the heart
of each person. When the father of a family wishes to make a Zion in his own house, he must take the lead in this good work,

which it is impossible for him to do unless he himself possesses the spirit of Zion. Before he can produce the work of sanctification in his family, he must sanctify himself, and by this means God can help him to sanctify his family.

"Only a Zion people can bring in a Zion society. And as the Zion people increase, so we will be able to incorporate more of the principles of Zion until we have a people prepared to receive the Lord."

"Be it remembered that Zion is people; Zion is the pure in heart; Zion is the saints of the living God. And be it also remembered that the people called Zion build the places called Zion."

"Zion can be built up only among those who are the pure in heart, not a people torn by covetousness or greed,
but a pure and selfless 
people. Not a people 
who are pure in 
appearance, rather 
a people who are pure in heart.

Zion is to be in the world and not of the world, not dulled by a sense of carnal security, nor paralyzed by materialism. No, Zion is not things of the lower, but of the higher order, things that exalt the mind and sanctify the heart."

"As I understand these matters, Zion can be established only by those who are pure in heart, and who labor for Zion, for 'the laborer in Zion shall labor for Zion; for if they labor for money they shall perish.'

As important as it is to have this vision in mind, defining and describing Zion will not bring it about. That can only be done through consistent and concerted daily effort by every single member of the Church. No matter what the cost in toil or sacrifice, we must 'do it.' "

"A little season – how long will it last? Will it be two hundred years? Or three hundred? Though the day of the Second Coming is fixed, the day

after we gain the needed experience and learn our duties; after we become by faith and obedience as were our fellow saints in the days of Enoch; after we are worthy to be translated, if the purposes of the Lord should call for such a course in this day – then Zion will be redeemed, and not before."