"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Thursday, September 23, 2010

a high opinion of self

{a piece of the previously posted talk}

“O God, help me to hold a high opinion of myself.” “That,” said President Harold B. Lee of the Englishman’s plea, “should be the prayer of every soul; not an abnormally developed self-esteem that becomes haughtiness, conceit, or arrogance, but a righteous self-respect that might be defined as ‘belief in one’s own worth, worth to God, and worth to man.’”