Words of Wisdom
Quotations, mostly given
extemporaneously.
If I misquoted you, please tell
me.
“Seven years or seven days—if she’s the right
one, go for it!”
“She took it to the Lord; he
didn’t care.”
“We keep looking so often at that
stupid closed door.”
“It does not matter who you
are not, as long as you know who you are”
“The worst part of being a
prisoner was being away from my family & loved ones”
-Elder Larry
[Christ is also the “finisher
of our faith” in the sense that he allows us to experience the adversities we
need to gain complete faith]
“It hurts Heavenly Father
when we think we’re of no worth” – M.K.L.
“Only recently since everyone
began loving all mankind, have they neglected the admonition to ‘love thy
neighbor’” – Bishop Peterson
“If you don’t read [your
patriarchal blessing], you might as well not have it.” – Brother Alford
“There are two doorkeepers to
the house of prayer, and Sorrow is more on the alert to open than her grandson
Joy” (George
MacDonald, Life Essential, p. 49)
“No pain that we suffer, no
trial that we experience is wasted” - Orson F Whitney
“There is a clear and obvious
difference between being “given” a “thorn in the flesh,” as Paul was, and
willfully impaling ourselves on the spears of sin. In the former circumstance, the afflicted may
ask “Why?”—but in the latter situation that is not a useful question to address
to anyone but ourselves”
- Neil A. Maxwell (2 Cor 12:7-9)
“Stopping something from
happening may be a form of service”