Transformative Truths: Quotes for Learning, Growing, & Becoming.

Episode 13 — Transformative Truths: Quotes for Learning, Growing & Becoming

Wally Goddard & Sarah Waldron Brinton

In this episode, Dr. Wally Goddard and Sarah Waldron Brinton reflect on a strikingly honest passage from Justin Collings in Divine Law: Themes in the Doctrine & Covenants.

He describes repentance as a “mnemonic whack-a-mole”—sins resurfacing just as we resolve others. Together, Wally and Sarah explore the reality of guilt, memory, and the liberating truth that repentance is not about perfection, but about turning wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ.

This episode offers comfort, clarity, and compassion for anyone who has ever wondered whether their repentance is enough — or whether Christ’s mercy truly reaches them.

🎧 Listen now — and feel the relief of grace.
Because the Savior meets us not in our flawlessness, but in our turning.

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“Keep Every Year”

Transformative Truths: Quotes for Learning, Growing, & Becoming
Episode 12

In this week’s episode of Transformative Truths, Sarah Waldron Brinton and Dr. Wally Goddard explore a beautiful idea from Sheila B. Cabrera: If you were to deny your age, what year of your life would you erase?

The joyful years?
The painful ones?
The quiet, ordinary seasons when you were simply content?

Together, they reflect on why every year — bright or dim — holds meaning and shapes the tapestry of who we are. Instead of denying our age or wishing seasons away, we can learn to honor the whole journey.

🎧 Join them as they explore why every year matters — because added up, they are our life.

Enjoy Life

In this week’s episode of Transformative Truths, Dr. Wally Goddard and Sarah Waldron Brinton explore what it really means to live cheerfully — even when life feels uncertain.

Drawing from Terryl Givens’ Agency: Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants (BYU Maxwell Institute, 2024) and Doctrine & Covenants 123:17, they remind us that true discipleship invites confidence, joy, and trust in the Lord’s providence.

“Perhaps with the future in mind, we might live with greater confidence, trust in the Lord’s providence, and be more accepting of and joyful in the life of willing discipleship.”

Together, Wally and Sarah talk about anxiety, hope in Christ, and what it means to cheerfully do all things that lie in our power while standing still with assurance to see the salvation of God.

✨ A reminder to let hope and cheerfulness, not fear, shape the way we live.

🎙️ Listen now — and remember: joy is a spiritual discipline.

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My Neighbor’s Glory

Episode 10

In this week’s episode of Transformative Truths, Dr. Wally Goddard and Sarah Waldron Brinton explore one of C.S. Lewis’s most profound insights — that “there are no ordinary people.”

Together they reflect on what it means to truly see the divine potential in others — to bear “the weight of our neighbor’s glory” with humility, kindness, and real, costly love.

What if the person you pass in the grocery store or the neighbor mowing the lawn is one of heaven’s greatest treasures?

💫 Listen now and be reminded: next to the Savior Himself, your neighbor is the holiest thing you’ll ever encounter.

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“Refugees”

Episode 9

In this week’s episode of Transformative Truths, Dr. Wally Goddard and Sarah Waldron Brinton reflect on what it truly means to love as the Savior loves — to see others not as strangers, but as brothers and sisters.

Inspired by Elder Patrick Kearon’s words and Wally’s personal experiences serving Syrian refugee families, they explore how compassion transforms both the giver and the receiver.

Together they remind us that Christ Himself was once a refugee — and that our response to others in need may just define us.

“For I was a stranger, and ye took me in.”

🎙️ Listen now and discover how small acts of kindness can become sacred expressions of discipleship.

“The Power of Charity”

In this week’s episode of Transformative Truths, Dr. Wally Goddard and Sarah Waldron Brinton talk about one of the most transforming virtues of all — charity.

Drawing on wisdom from Elder Marvin J. Ashton, they explore how charity means more than kindness — it’s the sacred act of giving others the benefit of the doubt, of seeing the divine within each other, and of finding freedom in forgiveness.

Listen as they discuss how even small moments of grace — especially toward those who annoy us — can change not only hearts, but souls.

✨ “Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt.” — Marvin J. Ashton

🎙️ Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

“Alma the Younger: From Rebellion to Redemption”

In this week’s Transformative Truths, Dr. Wally Goddard and Sarah Waldron Brinton explore the miraculous story of Alma the Younger — a man who went from “the vilest of sinners” to a transformed disciple through the power of Jesus Christ.

Together they share wisdom from Elder Boyd K. Packer and President Russell M. Nelson about the moment when grace steps in to do what we cannot.

💡 When you reach for Christ with all your heart, He will meet you with all His power.

🎙️ Listen now — and remember, there’s always a Lifeguard on duty.

In this week’s episode of Transformative Truths, Dr. Wally Goddard and Sarah Waldron Brinton share timeless wisdom from Harry Emerson Fosdick — reminding us that even in suffering, there is purpose.

Together they explore what it means to trust that God is weaving meaning through the dark and the light threads of our lives — that faith is not about having every answer, but believing there is one.

🎙️ Listen now and remember: even when life feels random or unfair, nothing is beyond God’s power to make beautiful in time.

📖 Quotes from “The Meaning of Faith” (1918) by Harry Emerson Fosdick.

Episode 5

In this episode of Transformative Truths: Quotes for Learning, Growing & Becoming, Dr. Wally Goddard and Sarah Waldron Brinton reflect on 2 Nephi 26:24 — “He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world; for he loveth the world…”

Together they explore what it means that Jesus Christ gave up everything — every hobby, every personal pursuit — to devote His entire being to blessing us. Through Nephi’s insight and Tad Callister’s reminder that “all of God’s faculties are poised and bent on blessing,” Wally and Sarah discuss the powerful doctrine of consecration: God’s tireless devotion to His children and His unending joy in being merciful.

With tender personal examples, they invite us to see ourselves as children of a God who never takes a break from loving us — and to give Him more opportunities to bless us by turning toward Him.

Episode 4

In this episode of Transformative Truths: Quotes for Learning, Growing & Becoming, Dr. Wally Goddard and Sarah Waldron Brinton explore the radical concept of yielding ourselves fully to God. Drawing from the timeless words of François Fénelon, they reflect on what it means to surrender control, trust completely, and allow God’s will to shape our lives. With personal stories of loss, faith, and unexpected blessings, Wally and Sarah illustrate how consecration and trust in God’s purposes can bring peace, even in life’s deepest challenges.

This week’s challenge: Instead of presenting our plans to God and asking Him to follow along, practice saying, “I submit to Thee. I trust Thy will.” Watch how He transforms your perspective when you yield yourself fully.