“Blessed Are All They Who Do Hunger and Thirst After Righteousness”

Ed J. Pinegar, Richard J. Allen

How happy are those who seek after righteousness and find it through the blessings of the Spirit. When our desire is insatiable for the things of God and His righteousness, we will be filled with the Spirit—and receive comfort and direction in all things. “There is too the significant blessing of personal momentum that always comes when we practice decision making in which we both reject wrong and choose the good. We thus avoid what one prophet called the in-betweenness of the sorrowing of the damned. (Mormon 2:13.) It is not enough to reach a bland behavioral point when we no longer take pleasure in sin; we must hunger and thirst for righteousness” (Neal A. Maxwell, Notwithstanding My Weakness [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1981], 104).

Commentaries and Insights on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 2

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