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Can you please tell me where I would find the quote from Joseph F Smith about courageous leaders? It was in your Acts 1-5 podcast about 1;39 minutes. Thank you for a beautiful podcast!
Lucy,
Thanks for listening to the podcast! I may have not put that one in the show notes! Sorry about that!
One of the highest qualities of all true leadership is a high standard of courage. When we speak of courage and leadership we are using terms that stand for the quality of life by which men determine consciously the proper course to pursue and stand with fidelity to their convictions. There has never been a time in the Church when its leaders were not required to be courageous men; not alone courageous in the sense that they were able to meet physical dangers, but also in the sense that they were steadfast and true to a clear and upright conviction. Leaders of the Church, then, should be men not easily discouraged, not without hope, and not given to forebodings of all sorts of evils to come. Above all things the leaders of the people should never disseminate a spirit of gloom in the hearts of the people. If men standing in high places sometimes feel the weight and anxiety of momentous times, they should be all the firmer and all the more resolute in those convictions which come from a God-fearing conscience and pure lives. Men in their private lives should feel the necessity of extending encouragement to the people by their own hopeful and cheerful intercourse with them, as they do by their utterances in public places. It is a matter of the greatest importance that the people be educated to appreciate and cultivate the bright side of life rather than to permit its darkness and shadows to hover over them…Men, then, who are called to leadership should be alarmed at the possession of a disposition filled with forebodings and misgivings and doubts and constant wonderments (Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, 155).
Thank you so much for these podcasts. They are one of my “go to” resources for preparing to teach my Gospel Doctrine class in my ward. I have one question/request: There was a quote form Elder Maxwell that was shared in either this episode or the next one about how the lives of the apostles are not “saccharine” in nature and that they paid the price with blood, sweat, and tears. I can’t seem to find that quote you shared in the show notes. Perhaps I am not looking in the right place? Any direction would be appreciated. Again, wonderful podcast! Thank you!
Perhaps it was this quote:
We must be careful as parents not to canonize these models as we have some pioneers and past Church leaders—not to dry all the human sweat off them, not to put ceaseless smiles on their faces, when they really struggled and experienced agony. Real people who believe and prevail are ultimately more faith-promoting and impressive than saccharine saints with tinsel traits. We must be careful, too, not to compare frail mortals with Jesus the perfect model; such comparisons break down on closer examination. A montage of models built informally, periodically, and skillfully by children and parents as the need arises (in terms of the age-agenda) can be helpful especially if some of the models are proximate, geographically and chronologically. Noting, for instance, how some neighbor handled a failure experience or a tragedy could well provide chances for relevant discussion. Of course, incessant citations can cause children to “tune out” or even resent this; the models ought to arise, in part, out of their own observations. (Elder Maxwell, More Excellent Way: Essays on Leadership for Latter-day Saints, chapter 10, “Using the home.”
I try and get all the quotes we use into the show notes, but sometimes a few slip through. If this is the case, I apologize.
Thanks for listening to the podcast!
-Mike