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The Lord uses us because of our unique personalities and differences rather than in spite of them. He needs all of us, with all our blemishes and weaknesses and limitations.
Source: Brigham Young University on 17 January 1989Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 7:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse.”
Source: April 2007 Conference AddressPosted: 09 Sep 2011 at 7:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.”
Source: Ecclesiasticus 28:17Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 6:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The Holy Ghost causes our feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate with each other. We are more calm in our relationships. We have a greater capacity to love each other. People want to be around us because our very countenances radiate the influence of the Spirit. We are more godly in our character. As a result, we become increasingly more sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and thus able to comprehend spiritual things more clearly.”
Speaker: President Ezra Taft BensonSource: Ensign, April 1988, p. 4Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 6:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In simple terms, the gift of the Holy Ghost is an enhanced spiritual power permitting those entitled thereto to receive it, to receive a greater knowledge and enjoyment of the influence of Deity.
Speaker: President James E. FaustSource: Ensign, April 1996Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 6:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Dwelling constantly on past injuries is, by its nature, limiting to the Spirit. It does not promote peace.
Speaker: President James E. FaustSource: Ensign, April 1996Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 6:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The task of leadership is not to create greatness in people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
Speaker: John BuchanPosted: 31 Aug 2011 at 9:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
Speaker: Phillips BrooksPosted: 29 Aug 2011 at 12:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To borrowing and lending there is more than the passing of gold from the hands of one to the hands of another
Speaker: George S. ClasonSource: Richest Man in BabylonPosted: 22 Aug 2011 at 3:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 22 Aug 2011 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The trick is to promote actual freedom – not just by giving people lots of choices (though that can help) but also by putting people in a good position to choose what would be best.
Source: NudgePosted: 06 Aug 2011 at 11:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You are so easy to hate. It’s perhaps your best quality.
Speaker: Andy TSource: Text msg from Andy T to Michael PPosted: 28 Jul 2011 at 1:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://zenhabits.net/new-habit/Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 7:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://zenhabits.net/new-habit/Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 7:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I’m telling the perfect truth.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune’s tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart’s mettle, and there’s no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you’ll sound sour as a broken bell.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing Because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something Despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Speaker: Henry Ward BeecherPosted: 28 Jun 2011 at 9:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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