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Testimony isn't something you have today and you are going to have always. A testimony is a fragile thing. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam. It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.
~Harold B. Lee, Church News, 15 July 1982 p.4

When you feel love for all, not just those you choose, but all those with whom you come in contact -- you experienmce peace. When you feel fear with anyone you come in contact with, you want to defend yourself and attack others and there comes the conflict.
~Gerald Jampolsky, Love is Letting Go of Fear

In order to experience peace instead of conflict, It is necessary to shift our perception. Instead of seeing others as attacking us, we can see them as fearful. We are always experiencing love or fear. Fear is really a call for help and therefore a request for love. It is apparent then that in order to experience peace we do have a choice in determining the way we perceive things.
~Gerald Jampolsky, Love is Letting Go of Fear

Because one does not see that love is an activity, a power of the soul, one believes that all that is necessary is to find the right object -- and that everything goes by itself afterward. This attitude can be compared to a man who wants to paint but who, instead of learning this art, claims that he has just to wait for the right object, and that he will paint beautifully when he finds it.
~Erich Fromm, Secrets to Share

To be totally accepting of others, we must accept the fact that they cannot satisfy all of our desires. People can only be what they are -- at least for the present. They can give only what they have at the moment to give. They may not have had as much knowledge of or practice at love as you have had. Yet when we want them to give us something they cannot give, we feel frustrated, angry, despondent, ill, rejected, or attacked.
~Patricia Holland, "The Friuts of Peace", Ensign, June 1984

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
~Will Rogers.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
~Booker T. Washington

Perseverance is not one long race, it is many short races one after another.
~Walter Elliott

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
~Leo Burnett

And Begining

We played on the hill,
Fought our battles as if it was the world.
And it meant the world to us
To win and never be wrong.

But since then I've embraced
Failure's cold depression.
I've felt the biting frost of fear.
It paralyzed me -- for a while.

Now, I know that there is more
Than games and winning.
It starts with erasing
And beginning.
~Erek James Erekson

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men.
~George Elliot

Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out.
~Karl A. Menninger, M.D., The Human Mind

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.
~Kathleen Norris, Bread unto Roses

Love, honor and negotiate.
~Alan Loy McGinnis

What is a Granmdmother? A grandmother is a lady who has no chidren of her own, so she likes other peoples little boys and girls. A grandfather is a man grandmother. He goes for walks with boys and talks about fishing and tractors and like that. Grandmothers don't have to do anything except be there. They're old so they shouldn't play hard or run. It is enough if they drive us to the market where the pretend horse is and have lots of dimes ready. And if they take us for walks they should slow down past things like pretty leaves and caterpillars. They should never say "Hurry up." Usually they are fat but not too fat to tie shoes. They wear glasses and funny underwear. They can take their teeth and gums off. It is better if they don't typewrite or play cards, except with us. They don't have to be smart, only answer questions like why dogs hate cats, and how come God isn't married. They don't talk baby talk like visitors do because it is hard to understand. When they read to us they don't skip pages or mind if it is the same story again. Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don't have television.
~an essay by a third grader

My beloved brethren and sisters, as we cleanse the inner vessel, there will have to be changes made in our own personal lives, in our families, and in the Chruch. The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. But we can do it.
~President Ezra Taft Bensen, April 1986

We need to understand that as much virtue can be gained in progressing toward Zion as in dwelling there. It is a process as well as a destination. We approach or withdraw from Zion through the manner in which we conduct our daily dealings; how we live wthin our families, whether we pay an honest tithe and generous fast offering, how we seize oportunities to serve and do so diligently. Many are perfected upon the road to Zion who will never see the city in mortality.
~Bishop Robert D. Hales, April 1986

Father, Where Shall I Work Today

Father, where shall I work today?
       And my love flowed warm and free.
Then He pointed out a tiny spot
       and said, "Tend that for me."
I answered quickly, "Oh no; not that!
       Why, no one would ever see,
no matter how well my work was done;
       not that little place for me."
And the word He spoke, it was not stern;
       He answered me tenderly:
"Ah, little one, search that heart of thine.
       Art thou working for them or me?
Nazareth was a little place,
       and so was Galilee."
~ Meade McGuire

When the name of God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ, are used with reverence and authority, they invoke a power beyond what mortal man can comprehend.
~Dallen H. Oakes, April 1986

Let us recognize profanity and vulgarity for what they are. They are sins that separate us from God and cripple our spiritual defenses by causing the Holy Ghost to withdraw from us.
~Dallen H. Oakes, April 1986

We need to learn the will of the Lord for us and then do it, as President Kimball emphasized. His will is made manifest through the standard works, his annointed servants, and personal revelation.
~President Ezra Taft Benson, April 1986

The word of God, as found in the scriptures, in the words of living prophets, and in personal revelation, has the power to fortify the Saints and arm them with the Spirit so they can resist evil, hold fast to the good, and find joy in this life.
~Dallen H. Oakes, April 1986

Success in righteousness, the power to avoid deception and resist temptation, guidance in our daily lives, healing of the soul -- these are but a few of the promises the Lord has given to those who will come to His word. Does the Lord promise and not fulfill? Surely if He tells us that these things will come to us if we lay hold upon His word, then the blessings can be ours. And if we do not, then the blessings may be lost. However diligent we may be in other areas, certain blessings are to be found only in the scriptures, only in coming to the word of the Lord and holding fast to it as we make our way through the mists of darkness to the tree of life.
~Dallen H. Oakes, April 1986

Use the action dialogue. If you want to be a person of action and not reaction, you first have to know the action words. they are ask, seek, knock, pray, love, work, believe. The reaction words are hate, anger, revenge, lust, fear, doubt, strife. Let's use the action words as they apply to learning to act.
       Ask for help, for forgiveness.
       Seek the Holy Ghost, the spirit of discernment.
       Knock looking for solutions; try to help other.
       Pray and draw closer to God; seek his counsel.
       Love and forgive others; look past their fauts; serve.
       Work to give more effort for self-control.
       Believe having faith in yourself, others, and God; appreciate your
           differences; and have patience with yourself.
~Anita Canfield, A Woman for All Seasons, p. 32

We ... [spend] too much time recollecting sorrow and not enough time collecting joy.
~Anita Canfield, A Woman for All Seasons, p. 64

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
~Earl Nightingale

As we evaluate our lives, it is important that we look not only at our accomplishments but also at the conditions under which we have labored. We are each different and unique; we have each had different starting points in the the race of life; we each have a unique mixture of talents and skills; we each have our own set of challenges and constraints to contend with. Therefore, our judgement of ourselves and our achievements should not merely include the size or magnitude and number of our accomplishnents; it should also include the conditions that have existed and the effect that our efforts have had on others.

It is this last aspect of our self-evaluation -- the effect of our lives on the live of others -- that will help us to understand why some of the common, ordinary work of life should be valued so highly. Frequently it is the commonplace tasks we perform that have the greatest positive effect on the lives of others, as compared with the things that the world so often relates to greatest.
~Howard W. Hunter, Speech at BYU found in New Era Feb 1988

The spirit of exploration, whether it be of the surface of the earth, the vastnes of space, or the principles of living greatly, includes developing the capacity to face trouble with courage; disappointment with cheerfulness; and triumph with humility. God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt. God gives to man the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of finished things. He leaves the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved that man might know the joys of creation.
~Thomas S. Monson, "In Quest of the Abundant Life", Ensign, March 1988, p. 2

None of us lives alone -- in our city, our nation or our world. There is no dividing line between our property and our neighbors property.

It is an immutable law that the more you give away, the more you receive. You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
~Thomas S. Monson, "In Quest of the Abundant Life", Ensign, March 1988, p. 2

Happiness abounds where there in genuine respect for one another. Particularly to those not yet married I counsel: Those who marry in the hope of forming a permanent partnership require certain skills and attitudes of mind. They must be skillful in adapting to each other; they need the capacity to work out mutual problems; they need willingness to give and take in the search for harmony; and they need unselfishnes of the highest sort -- thought for their partners taking the place of desire for themselves. This is respect.
~Thomas S. Monson, "In Quest of the Abundant Life", Ensign, March 1988, p. 2

To seek for righteousness without being self-righteous! ...

To vaunt is to proudly call attention to our possessions, our accomplishments, our associations, or our righteousness.
~Visiting Teaching Message, Ensign, March 1988

Sometimes we spend time satisfying our intellectual egos and trying to find all the answers before we will accept any.
~James E. Faust, An Untroubled Faith", Ensign, March 1988, p.69

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