quotes from Julie B. Beck
Membership in the Church requires faith, which we nourish throughout our lives with great 'diligence, and patience, and long-suffering' (Alma 32:43).
The pursuit of personal righteousness is a daily effort to become more like the Savior through repentance, scripture study, prayer, obedience to commandments, and through seeking after everything 'virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy' (Articles of Faith 1:13)."
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Talk by Juile B. Beck - Fullfilling the purpose of Relief Society, Nov 2008