Testimony comes from study, prayer, and living the commandments, and
repetition of a testimony builds and stabilizes it. Every testimony
a transgressor bears, every prayer he offers, every sermon he preaches,
every scripture he reads, every help he gives to stimulate and raise
others--all these strengthen him and raise him to higher levels ...
As we become instruments in God's hands in changing the lives of others
our own lives cannot help being lifted. One can hardly help another
to the top of the hill without climbing there himself.
(President Spencer W. Kimball, Miracle of Forgiveness,
p. 205) |