I

To perform your duty well to satisfy God, and achieve fear of God and shunning of evil, I will tell a principle of practice to you: If you have an attitude of seeking and submission when something happens to you, then this will protect you. The ultimate goal isn't for you to be protected. It's to make you understand the truth, and be able to enter into the reality, and attain salvation—this is the ultimate goal. If you have this attitude in all that you experience, you'll no longer feel that performing your duty well and satisfying God are empty words and slogans; it will no longer feel so taxing. Before you realize it, you'll come to understand quite a few truths. If you try to experience in this way, you'll be sure to reap rewards.

II

It doesn't matter who you are, how old you are, how educated you are, how many years you've believed in God, or what duty you perform. As long as you have an attitude of seeking and submission, as long as you experience in this way, then ultimately, you'll be sure to understand the truth and enter into the truth reality. If you do not have an attitude of seeking and submission in everything that happens to you, then you will not be able to understand the truth, nor will you be able to enter into the truth reality. What believing in God stresses most is practicing the truth and being able to grasp the principles in practicing the truth. Only by understanding what practicing the truth is, and what handling matters with principles is, can one be said to understand the truth and to have entered into reality. Being able to practice the truth and enter into reality is the most important thing.

from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Part Three