Study Recap: An Educated Conscience by Steven R. Covey

Title: An Educated Conscience
Author: Steven R. Covey
Source: devotional address at BYU given on 27 May 1975
Link: http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=948&tid=7
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Favorite Parts

• I was very interested in President Lee's and President Kimball's first press conference after they were made Presidents of the Church. The basic message which they gave to the world and to the Church was to keep the commandments. Keep the commandments.
• They have a more educated conscience. They are more convicted by a feeling of guilt if they violate certain covenants of which the world is not even aware.
• I believe sometimes that as Latter-day Saints we are like fish who discover water last. We are so immersed in the element that we are unaware of its presence. We have been immersed in the revelations of the Lord in this dispensation. No dispensation can compare to this one.
• President Lee spoke to a group of missionaries in England, and in answer to the question "What is the most important of all the commandments?" said, "The most important commandment is the one you're having the greatest difficulty living."
• Look on your prayers, not as a time to counsel the Lord, but as a time to take counsel from him. I really believe too many times we go down a checklist, in a sense, telling the Lord who, how, where, and when to bless and directing him around the universe and the heavens, instead of being still, sensing a relationship, listening, and then responding to what you hear.