In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one takes the place to which one is duly called, which place one neither seeks nor declines.


President J. Reuben Clark Jr., Conference Report, Apr. 1951, 154 as found in Boyd K. Packer, “The Weak and the Simple of the Church,” Ensign, Nov 2007, 6–9