Quote #52

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us;
we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

C.S. Lewis

Quote #51

Every person you meet, every single one, is looking for their story. There are no exceptions. You become a part of it by how you treat them.

Quote #50

Two individuals approaching the marriage altar must realize that to attain the happy marriage which they hope for they must know that marriage is not a legal coverall, but it means sacrifice, sharing, and even a reduction of some personal liberties. It means long, hard economizing. It means children who bring with them financial burdens, service burdens, care and worry burdens; but also it means the deepest and sweetest emotions of all.

Delayed marriage... is not fully acceptable. All normal people should plan their lives to include a proper temple marriage in their early life and to multiply and have their families in the years of their early maturity. 

Quote #49

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Matthew 25:40

Quote #48

The voice of the Lord is clear and unmistakeable. He knows you, He loves you. He wants you to be eternally happy. But according to your God given agency. The choice is yours. Each one of you has to decide for yourself if you are going to ignore the past and suffer the painful mistakes and tragic pitfalls that have befallen previous generations, experiencing for yourself the devastating consequences of bad choices. How much better your life will be if you will follow the noble example of the faithful followers of Christ such as the sons of Helaman, Moroni, Joseph Smith and the stalwart pioneers - and choose, as they did, to remain faithful to your Heavenly Father's commandments.

M. Russell Ballard, Ensign, May 2009, 33

Quote #47

Invitation:

Who: D&C 104:79
Why: D&C 19:28, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, James 1:5, Alma 34:27
How: 3 Nephi 19:6, 1 Timothy 4:15
Where: Matthew 6:6, Alma 34:26
When: Alma 34:21, 1 Thessalonians 5:17
Promise: Alma 37:37
RSVP

Quote #46

The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became infuriated when the child tried to decorate the box to put under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, "This is for you, Daddy."

He was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found the box was empty. He yelled at her, "Don't you know there's supposed to be something in it?"

The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said, "Oh, Daddy, it's not empty, I blew kisses into the box. All for you Daddy."

The father was crushed. He put his arms around the little girl and he begged for her forgiveness.

An accident took the life of the child only a short time later and it is told that the man kept the gold box by his bed for many years and whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who put it there.

In a very real sense, each of us humans have been given a gold container full of unconditional love and kisses form friends, family, or God. There is no more precious possessions that anyone could hold.

Quote #45

“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics.There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - These are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”
― C.S. Lewis, Weight of Glory

Quote #44

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt

Quote #43

There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can.

Henry Ford

Quote #42

Failures do what is tension relieving,

while winners do what is goal achieving.

Dennis Waitley

Quote #41

You can do anything, but not everything.

David Allen

Quote #40

"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

Robert A. Heinlein

Quote #39

The Garden of Gethsemane was just an olive garden until Jesus prayed in it.

The Sacred Grove was just a grove until Joseph Smith prayed in it.

My room was just a room until I prayed in it.

Quote #38

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes per hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Clive Staples Lewis

Quote #37

Choose ye this day whom ye will serve... but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Joshua 24:15

Quote #36

What a win, if I gain the thing I seek?

A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?

Or sells eternity to get a toy?

For one sweet grape, who will the vine destroy?

William Shakespeare

Quote #35

The tree that never had to fight

For sun and sky and air and light,

But stood out in the open rain,

Never became a foreest king

But lived and died a scrubby thing.

Good timber does not grow with ease,

The stronger wind, the stronger trees.

Douglas Malloch

Quote #34

There once was an oyster, whose story I’ll tell

Who found that some sand had gotten into his shell

It was only a grain, but gave him great pain

For oysters have feelings, although they are plain.

Now, did he debate the harsh workings of fate

That had brought him to such a deplorable state?

“No,” he said to himself, “Since I cannot remove it,”

“I’ll lie in my shell, and think how to improve it.”

The years rolled around, as the years always do,

And he came to his ultimate destiny… stew.

Now the small grain of sand that had bothered him so,

Was a beautiful pearl all richly aglow,

This tale has a moral, for isn’t it grand,

What an oyster can do with a morsel of sand?

Think… what could we do, if we’d only begin

With some of the things that get under our skin.

Quote #33

Every moment can be an opportunity to improve.

President James E. Faust

Quote #32

A fellow ought to act so that when someone tells his son he reminds him of his father the boy will stick out his chest instead of hanging his head.

Quote #31

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~ Marianne Williamson (quoted by Nelson Mandela)

Quote #30

According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumblebee cannot fly. I guess not bothered to tell the bee.

KEEP FLYING!

Quote #29

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending love letters to the world.

Mother Teresa

Quote #28

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas Edison

Quote #27

You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Quote #26

A coincidence is a miracle where God prefers to remain anonymous.

Quote #25

Sometimes we want the faith to move mountains, but Heavenly Father lets us pray and fast and then only gives us strength to climb up and over the mountain.

Quote #24

BE OF GOOD CHEER

Matthew 9:2

Matthew 14:27

Mark 6:50

John 16:33

Acts 23:11

Acts 27:22,25,36

Alma 17:31

3 Nephi 1:13

D&C 61:36

D&C 68:6

D&C 78:18

D&C 112:4

Quote #23

If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

Matthew 9:21

Quote #22

It’s not silly. If it matters to you, it matters to Heavenly Father.

Quote #21

God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Quote #20

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.

He sends you flowers ever spring.

He sends you a sunrise every morning.

Face it, friend – He’s crazy about you.

Quote #19

If I'm leaning on Christ and someone else is leaning on me, I don't need to worry. He can hold us both up.

Quote #18

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all the troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Walt Disney

Quote #17

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Harry Fosdick

Quote #16

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.

“I don’t much care where-“ said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.

~ Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Quote #15

You will be running to the four corners of the universe;

To where the land meets the big water;

To where the sky meets the land;

To where the home of winter is;

To the home of rain.

Run!

Be strong.

For you are the mother of a people.

~ Brighton Camp

Legend Ceremony

Quote #15

I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Quote #14

It's not getting what you want, it's wanting what you get.

Quote #13

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, "I'm possible!"

Audrey Hepburn

Quote #12

“God is eagerly waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as he always has. But he can't if you don't pray, and he can't if you don't dream. In short, he can't if you don't believe.”

Jeffrey R. Holland

Quote #11

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,

but sometimes, your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Quote #10

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worth cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails whole daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Quote #9

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

Quote #8

When I stand before God at the end of my life,

I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left,

And I could say, "I used everything you gave me."

Erma Bombeck

Quote #7

Your journey has molded you for your greater good,

And it was exactly what it needed to be.

Don't think that you've lost time.

It took each and every situation you have encountered

To bring you to the now.

And now is right on time.

Asha Tyson

Quote #6

Get on your knees and pray,

Then get on your feet and work.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Quote #5

The will of God will never take you

Where the love of God will not protect you.

Quote #4

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most;

It's making a great deal out of the little ones.

Jean Webster