“Try to show kindness in all that you do. Be gentle and loving in deed and thought. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is. And the sorrow comes primarily from selfishness, which is the absence of love.”
President Henry B. Eyring, counselor to the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Like most of my evangelical readers, I do not consider the Mormon faith to be Christian, given that its basis is that “As man is now, God once was; as God is now, man can become,” which conflicts dreadfully with the Christian belief that God is One and there can be no other like the Yahweh we worship. The affirmation that any human being can become God, or that our God once was a mere human, is repugnant to me.
Nonetheless, the words above are a beautiful illustration of the conduct that God requires of us, and in a world that has “Christians” cursing both unbelievers and each other while developing theologies that encourage and excuse self-satisfying and Other-diminishing thoughts and actions, they serve as a much-needed corrective.