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My Personal Antidepressant(continued)(page 7) |
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I think it is not possible for a woman to be overtrained for her role. ~Shirley W. Thomas, 2nd counselor R.S. Gen. Pres. |
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A home is more than a house or a room to live in. For one person making a home for herself, or for the mother of a large family, the home should be a place of learning, a place where prayer can point the way to eternal life. That is how the world will be saved -- by strengthening every child of God in every home. ~Marian R. Boyer, 1st counselor R.S.Gen. Pres. |
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Back into the heart's small house I crept and fell upon my knees and wept and lo, He came to me. ~Unknown |
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I am not satisfied to accept things. I like to follow through and study things out. I learned early to put aside those gospel questions that I couldn't answer. I had a shelf of things I didn't understand, but as I've grown older and studied and prayed and thought about each problem, one by one, I've been able to better understand them. ~Camilla Eyring Kimball (from Blueprints for Living, vol 1) |
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While the divine mission of motherhood is paramount, it is not all-inclusive. To help another gain eternal life is a companion privilege. This privilege, indeed this sacred responsibility, this noblest of callings, is denied to no worthy person. To assist in bringing to pass the eternal life of man, and to do it in dignity and honor, is the very pinnacle of my own personal dream. And for us to close our eyes to these eternal truths and not recognize them as priesthood blessings and ordinances is to keep us on the fringe area of the very saving principles -- the only principles -- that can make our eternal dreams come true. ~Ardeth Greene Kapp (Closing address of Fifth Annual Women's Conference 1980, Blueprints for Living, vol 1) |
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The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. ~Oscar Wilde |
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Be careful about reading health books -- you might die from a misprint. ~Mark Twain |
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers |
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller |
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. ~W. H. Auden |
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The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us. Whether from inadvertence, ignorance, or other causes, the efforts governments often make (ostensibly to help the family) sometimes only hurt the family more. There are those who would define the family in such a nontraditional way that they would define it out of existence. The more governments try in vain to take the place of the family, the less effective governments will be in performing the traditional and basic roles for which governments are formed in the first place. |
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Those who, whether in ignorance or malice, attack the family are setting in motion an awful and needless cycle of misery and despair, for they will search in vain and pain for substitutes, and the wisdom of the worldly wise shall perish publicly for their folly concerning the family. |
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Our political institutions—parliaments, congresses, and assemblies—cannot rescue us if our basic institution, the family, is not intact. Peace treaties cannot save us when there is hostility instead of love in the home. Unemployment programs cannot rescue us when many are no longer taught how to work or do not have the opportunity to work or the inclination, in some cases, to do so. Law enforcement cannot safeguard us if too many people are unwilling to discipline themselves or be disciplined. |
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Rising generations who have been taught that authority and loving discipline are wrong will not keep the fifth commandment, honoring their fathers and mothers (see Ex. 20:12). How can the rising generations honor their parents if their parents have dishonored themselves—especially by breaking the seventh commandment(see Ex. 20:14)? |
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Let your love of each member of your family be unconditional. Where there are challenges, you fail only if you fail to keep trying! |
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Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family—they go together, hand in hand, and so must we! |
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We want our children and their children to know that the choice of life is not between fame and obscurity, nor is the choice between wealth and poverty. The choice is between good and evil, and that is a very different matter indeed. |
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It is the misapprehension of most people that if you are good, really good, at what you do, you will eventually be both widely known and well compensated. It is the understanding of almost everyone that success, to be complete, must include a generous portion of both fame and fortune as essential ingredients. The world seems to work on that premise. The premise is false. It is not true. The Lord taught otherwise. |
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Some are tested by poor health, some by a body that is deformed or homely. Others are tested by handsome and healthy bodies; some by the passion of youth; others by the erosions of age. Some suffer disappointment in marriage, family problems; others live in poverty and obscurity. Some (perhaps this is the hardest test) find ease and luxury. All are part of the test, and there is more equality in this testing than sometimes we suspect. |
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... silent witnesses are not of much value. ~Rex C. Reeve |
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Remember now that Christ has no hands but our hands and no voice but our voice to do his work today. ~Rex C. Reeve |
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Power in the priesthood is a product of righteousness; it is not an unearned gift. ~H. Burke Petersen |
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It is an interesting phenomenon, my young friends, how, as we serve, our capacity to serve grows and our opportunities for service expand. And we learn the great secret to a happy, rewarding life—that happiness, real happiness, doesn�t come in acquiring wealth or gaining notoriety or position. True, lasting happiness comes in service. ~Robert L. Backman |
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Learning the gospel from books, however, is not enough. It must be lived ... As a matter of fact, getting a knowledge of the gospel and living it are interdependent. They go hand in hand. One cannot fully learn the gospel without living it. A knowledge of the gospel comes by degrees. One learns a little, obeys what he learns, learns a little more, obeys that, and repeats this cycle in an endless round. Such is the pattern by which one can move on to a full knowledge of the gospel. ~Marion G. Romney |
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There is no knowledge other than the knowledge of the things of God that will save us. ~Marion G. Romney |
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One can scarcely hope to be fortified �against the wiles of the devil� by putting �on the whole armour of God� (see Eph. 6:11) unless he knows what that armor is. ~Marion G. Romney |
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Would that people could only realize that their imperfections are not chiseled in granite. ~David S. King, "Dealing Successfully with Change", Ensign, February 1981 |
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Some changes come into our lives as unbidden guests, drawing after them murky clouds of unhappiness and desolation. We may be forced to deal with drug addiction in a family member or friend, or with the deviate behavior, divorce, child abuse, incest, criminality, immorality, psychiatric disturbance, illness, or death of someone close to us. We may even find ourselves the innocent victims of physical assault. Such challenges are not of our choosing, but our suffering is not diminished in the slightest by that fact. Though our emotions cry out in righteous protest, in our quiet hours we realize that these intrusions into the stability of our lives are the result of choices made by others and are the price we have to pay for the right to live in a world of moral freedom of choice, where good and evil are forever opposing each other in an ongoing struggle for supremacy. This does not mean that we accept these evils, or accept them as inevitable. It means only that we must be prepared to suffer for the privilege of living in a world of imperfect but autonomous human beings with whom we are interconnected by ties of love and affection. ~David S. King, "Dealing Successfully with Change", Ensign, February 1981 |
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Since we are often powerless to avert such changes brought about by others, our approach must be not so much how to avoid them, but how to cope with them. ~David S. King, "Dealing Successfully with Change", Ensign, February 1981 |
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