Rae: Good quote from prophet

This quote (from Thomas S. Monson) is from the recent Worldwide Leadership Training meeting held in February of this year. Ivan and I were unable to attend due to the internment of his mother, but I just finished reading the transcript this morning. I thought the following words applied to our discussion re reading and coming to Christ (emphasis mine):

An essential part of our learning library will be good books. Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged, adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.

James A. Michener, prominent author, suggests: "A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined."

The Lord counseled, "Seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith."

Of course, the standard works offer the ultimate library of learning of which I speak. Let us read from them often, both privately and with our families, that we may be enlightened and edified and draw closer to the Lord."

In my mind, ultimate does not mean exclusive. It does mean ultimate as in good, better, and best.

Happy reading!