Author Archives: Monte Shelley

C. C. Riddle, Jan. 1999 God is love. All those who truly worship God do so by learning to love others with the same pure love with which He loves us. This holy kind of love can be learned only … Continue reading →

Chauncey C. RiddleOctober 1998 You may wonder about this title. It is common in the church to speak of “having” faith in Jesus Christ. But it is also common to hear people say that the faith that they have does … Continue reading →

Chauncey C. RiddleZion Institute for Children2 March 1996 How would you like to have the philosopher’s stone? It would turn everything to gold. Or would you like to find the fountain of youth, so that you would never be ill … Continue reading →

One of the things that makes it delightful to be a philosopher is the opportunity to look at the big picture. Let us share musings for a few minutes about the sweep of the way things really are as we … Continue reading →

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “quid pro quo” as follows: “One thing (or action) in return or exchange for another; tit for tat.” It is plain that quid pro quo is the essence of justice: one should pay for that … Continue reading →

Be in tune with the Savior: Think out: Work out: Evaluate:

Messages to the faculty of the College of Religion, Brigham Young University, 1966 No. 1 The following ideas are submitted in the hope that each of us can more completely fill our potential as servants of the Lord in instructing … Continue reading →

Our Savior has said that we should be holy, for He is holy. Holy is a form of the word, “wholly.” What can we do to be holy? Be wholly focused on Him.

July 1986 Lesson One: People 1.   A person is a human being: a body and a spirit. An individual human person is one who has learned to act independently of other human beings and to act as a unit to … Continue reading →

The most important event in the total history of this world is the event known as the Atonement of Jesus Christ. It is possible to construe what the atonement is narrowly or broadly. To see it in narrow focus is … Continue reading →