Favorite Spiritual Quotes
"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."
~Jeffery R. Holland (July 2007 Ensign)
"A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvations on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will."
~C.S. Lewis (The Weight of Glory)
"Today
You came running
With a small specked egg
Warm in your hand.
You could barely understand,
I know
As I told you
Of beginnings--
Of egg and bird.
Told, too,
that years ago
You began,
Smaller than sight.
And then,
As egg yearns for sky
And seed
Stretches to tree,
You became--
Like me.
Oh,
But there's so much more.
You and I, child,
Have just begun.
Think:
Worlds from now
What might we be?--
We,
Who are seed
Of Deity."
~Carol Lynn Pearson
"Murmuring can...be noisy enough that it drowns out the various spiritual signals to us, signals which tell us in some cases to quit soaking ourselves indulgently in the hot tubs of self-pity! Murmuring over the weight of our crosses not only takes energy otherwise needed to carry them but might cause another to put down his cross altogether...
Being of good cheer is what is needed, and being of good [cheer] is equally contagious. We have clear obligations to so strengthen each other by doing things 'with cheerful hearts and countenances' (D&C 59:15)"
~Elder Neal A Maxwell (1926-2004) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
"And now we're here -- our memories are veiled -- and we're showing God and ourselves what we can do. And nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar his face is to us. And then, as President Brigham Young said, we're going to wonder why we were so stupid in the flesh.
God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us -- friends in heaven that we can't remember now, who yearn for our victory. This is our day to show what we can do -- what life and sacrifice we can daily, hourly, instantly bring to God. If we give our all, we will get his all from the greatest of all."
~President Ezra Taft Benson
~Jeffery R. Holland (July 2007 Ensign)
"A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvations on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will."
~C.S. Lewis (The Weight of Glory)
"Today
You came running
With a small specked egg
Warm in your hand.
You could barely understand,
I know
As I told you
Of beginnings--
Of egg and bird.
Told, too,
that years ago
You began,
Smaller than sight.
And then,
As egg yearns for sky
And seed
Stretches to tree,
You became--
Like me.
Oh,
But there's so much more.
You and I, child,
Have just begun.
Think:
Worlds from now
What might we be?--
We,
Who are seed
Of Deity."
~Carol Lynn Pearson
"Murmuring can...be noisy enough that it drowns out the various spiritual signals to us, signals which tell us in some cases to quit soaking ourselves indulgently in the hot tubs of self-pity! Murmuring over the weight of our crosses not only takes energy otherwise needed to carry them but might cause another to put down his cross altogether...
Being of good cheer is what is needed, and being of good [cheer] is equally contagious. We have clear obligations to so strengthen each other by doing things 'with cheerful hearts and countenances' (D&C 59:15)"
~Elder Neal A Maxwell (1926-2004) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
"And now we're here -- our memories are veiled -- and we're showing God and ourselves what we can do. And nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar his face is to us. And then, as President Brigham Young said, we're going to wonder why we were so stupid in the flesh.
God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us -- friends in heaven that we can't remember now, who yearn for our victory. This is our day to show what we can do -- what life and sacrifice we can daily, hourly, instantly bring to God. If we give our all, we will get his all from the greatest of all."
~President Ezra Taft Benson
Rexburg Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Favorite Insirational Quotes
"Treat the other person (or yourself!) like a Gold mine. In order to find a single nugget of Gold, a Miner must remove tons and tons of dirt and rock, but a Miner never goes into the Mine looking for the dirt! Look for the Gold, look for the good, look for God in others and surely you will find it."
~Author Unknown
~Author Unknown
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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