Mosiah 2:17

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Mosiah 2Â*

17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.

Quotes for Discussion

Dallin H. Oaks

“When we think of service, we usually think of the acts of our hands. But, as shown in earlier chapters, the Lord looks to our hearts as well as our hands. He is concerned not only with our acts but also with our motives. One of his earliest commandments to Israel was to ‘love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul’ (Deuteronomy 11:13).

“In order to purify our service to God and to our fellowmen, it is therefore important to consider not only how we serve, but also why we serve.

“People serve one another for different reasons, and some reasons are better than others. It has been said that ‘the biggest gap in the world is the gap between the justice of a cause and the motives of the people pushing it’ (John P. Grier, in Lawrence J. Peter, comp., Peter's Quotations, [New York: William Morrow and Co., 1977], p. 340).” (Pure in Heart, p. 38)

Howard W. Hunter

“When we understand why we serve we will not worry about where we serve.” (BYU Devotional, Sept. 2, 1990 as taken from Latter-day Commentary on the Book of Mormon compiled by K. Douglas Bassett, p. 201)