Browsing Quotes With Tag: trials (76)
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“...man’s extremity is God’s opportunity, and if we will be humble and faithful, if we will be believing and not curse God for our problems, He can turn the unfair and inhumane and debilitating prisons of our lives into temples—or at least into a circumstance that can bring comfort and revelation, divine companionship and peace.”
Speaker: Elder Jeffrey R. HollandSource: Lessons from Liberty Jail, http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=2358Posted: 31 Aug 2013 at 3:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“No matter how we live, there will be pain in this world. But misery is optional.”
Speaker: Marion D. HanksPosted: 09 Sep 2011 at 8:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So often we feel, implicitly, that we are doing God a favor if we do his work, that we are helping him along when, in fact, our performance properly undertaken is for the welfare of our soul, not his! It is our happiness and our growth he seeks! How wonderful it could be to pray that what we do would be mindstretching and soul-expanding. Such genuine, prayerful forethought could also reduce the less-than-necessary tasks we do that are trivial and could lessen the number of right things we do for the wrong reasons.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: For the Power is Unto ThemPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 1:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To be yourself you have to sometimes deal with feelings that only you are feeling.
Speaker: Scott BerkunPosted: 05 Aug 2009 at 3:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing…
Good timber does not grow with ease,
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.Speaker: Douglas MallochPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity. When a man wages war against his weakness, this is the most holy war he can ever enter… and the joy of accomplishment is the most exquisite.
Speaker: Marion G. RomneyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Adversity is the midwife of genius.
Speaker: Napoleon BonapartePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can either complain that the roses have thorns, or thank God that the thorns have roses.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is better to suffer the worst right now than to live in perpetual fear of it.
Speaker: Julius CaesarPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If we have removable obstacles in our way and don’t remove them, we won’t progress
Speaker: Kari OlsenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God gave us memories, that we may have June roses in the December of our lives.
Speaker: James BarriePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Somehow the Latter-Day Saints have the mistaken notion that in the end, when the day comes that the Lord will make them gods or goddesses, that someone lays their hands on their heads and, as it were, says to them, “You have now all that you need to be a God – go ahead“– this is not true. All that you need to be a God is in you right now. Your job is to take those crude elements within you and refine them.
Speaker: James E. TalmagePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When tribulations and problems come, you cannot let your faith weaken, but you must redouble your faith in the Lord… Joseph Smith… said that when the Lord sees that you are willing to serve Him at any price, at any cost, or under any circumstance, then you will have sufficient faith to lay hold upon eternal life, and not until.
Speaker: Gene R. CookPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our ills are usually of our own begetting.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If I’m gonna be His disciple, how dare I ask to never even come close to the pain He felt, the blood He shed, the tears He saw.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Welcome to the life of the Savior, who knows quite a bit about cups that people don’t want to drink, and paths that people don’t particularly want to walk.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In missionary work, you cannot guarantee success; you can only deserve it.
Speaker: David R. StonePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To share truth in difficult circumstances treasures it up all the more.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience from bad judgment.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The waters of life can be very deep, and we are not shallow because we struggle with them.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!