Browsing Quotes With Tag: inspiration (13)
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“Sometimes you may struggle with a problem and not get an answer. What could be wrong? It may be that you are not doing anything wrong. It may be that you have not done the right things long enough. Remember, you cannot force spiritual things. Sometimes we are confused simply because we won’t take no for an answer. …
“Put difficult questions in the back of your minds and go about your lives. Ponder and pray quietly and persistently about them.
“The answer may not come as a lightning bolt. It may come as a little inspiration here and a little there, ‘line upon line, precept upon precept’ (D&C 98:12).
“Some answers will come from reading the scriptures, some from hearing speakers. And, occasionally, when it is important, some will come by very direct and powerful inspiration. The promptings will be clear and unmistakable”.
Speaker: Elder Boyd K. PackerSource: Conference Report, Oct. 1979, 29–30; or Ensign, Nov. 1979, 21Posted: 13 Feb 2013 at 8:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“When we seek inspiration to help make decisions, the Lord gives gentle promptings. These require us to think, to exercise faith, to work, to struggle at times, and to act. Seldom does the whole answer to a decisively important matter or complex problem come all at once. More often, it comes a piece at a time, without the end in sight”.
Speaker: Elder Richard G. ScottSource: Conference Report, Oct. 1989, 40; or Ensign, Nov. 1989, 32Posted: 13 Feb 2013 at 8:41 AMComments: 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! -
The pain that youve been feeling cant compare to the joy thats coming. press on, fight the good fight, its just the dark before the morning….
Speaker: josh wilsonPosted: 12 Jan 2011 at 12:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Speaker: GandhiSource: OnlinePosted: 10 Feb 2009 at 11:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.
Speaker: ConfuciusSource: OnlinePosted: 10 Feb 2009 at 10:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Keep pushing. When two minds are locked in battle one will break. Do not break or falter. Stay true to them. But do not let them drag you down with them. You have to be the hero, the one carrying the banner of light and hope.
Speaker: Zach HeinzSource: ChristinePosted: 10 Feb 2009 at 10:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I’m waiting for the day that things click, and everything is right with the world, as is my father, as was his father, and his, and the next. I’m coming to the conclusion that I cannot sit and wait for that click. I must make that click happen myself, but I cannot do it alone.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: ChristinePosted: 10 Feb 2009 at 10:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s not what you have in life that matters. It’s what you do with what you have that matters.
Speaker: Teddy RooseveltSource: ChristinePosted: 10 Feb 2009 at 10:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Leave it all in between the lines.
Speaker: Ian MillerSource: MyspacePosted: 10 Feb 2009 at 9:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The things we hope FOR lead us to faith, while the things we hope IN lead us to charity.
Speaker: President Dieter F. UchtdorfSource: "The Infinite Power of Hope"; November 2008 EnsignPosted: 20 Nov 2008 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Speaker: Tony DorsettPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can, therefore I am.
Speaker: Simone WeilPosted: 30 Nov 2007 at 7:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!