Browsing Quotes With Tag: trials (76)
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The Plan always points the way, but it doesn’t always smooth the way.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People may spurn your appeals, reject your message, and oppose your arguments, but they are helpless against your prayers.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God’s commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.
Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the Lord’s work, and we are on the Lord’s errand, brethren, and we are entitled to the Lord’s help. Remember that the Lord will shape the back to bear the burden placed upon it.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One reason the Lord illustrates doctrines with the most extreme circumstances is to eliminate excuses. If the Lord expects even the poorest widow to pay her mite, where does that leave all others who find that it is not convenient or easy to sacrifice?
Speaker: Lynn G. RobbinsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Testimony gives us the eternal perspective necessary to see past the trials or challenges we will inevitably face.
Speaker: Joseph B. WirthlinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon moral beings will be suffered to come upon the few, to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord… Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.
Speaker: Brigham YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Dr. Arthur Wentworth Hewitt suggested some reasons why the good suffer as well as the wicked: ‘First: I don’t know. Second: We may not be as innocent as we think. Third: …I believe it is because He loves us so much more than He loves our happiness. How so? Well, if on a basis of strict personal return here and now, all the good were always happy and all the bad suffered disaster (instead of often quite the reverse), this would be the most subtle damnation of character imaginable.
Speaker: James E. FaustPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I believe our problems, almost every one, arise out of the homes of the people. If there is to be reformation, if there is to be a change, if there is to be a return to the old and sacred values, it must begin in the home.
It is here that truth is learned, that integrity is cultivated, that self-discipline is instilled, and that love is nurtured.Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well.
…We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. For some it may be poverty, but for others it may be prosperity. It may be the ravages of age or the exuberance of youth. The combination of trials and their duration are as varied as are the children of our Heavenly Father. No two are alike.
But what is being tested is the same, at all times in our lives and for every person: will we do whatsoever the Lord our God will command us?Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To recognize the hand of the Lord in your life and to accept His will without complaint is a beginning. That decision does not immediately eliminate the struggles that will come for your growth. But I witness that it is the best way there is for you to find strength and understanding. It will free you from the dead ends of your own reasoning.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
An obstacle is what you see when you take your eye off your goal.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way we live, particularly under strain and threat, is our clearest testimony. Over time it reflects what we really believe. If it is in harmony with what we say we believe, the Lord will use us and bear testimony though us in some way to every person we meet.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.
Speaker: Thomas PaineSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The next time someone offends you, strive for the God/Christ-centeredness and bless them in return. Pray for those who persecute you and speak evil against you. Realize that this is one of the missions to which you have been called, and don’t ask to be saved from it.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you had an inaccurate map of a city, you would be both lost and frustrated. If someone counseled you to try harder and you doubled your speed, you would merely be lost twice as fast. If the person sensed how discouraged you were and counseled you to think positively rather than negatively, you would still be lost but perhaps you wouldn’t care about it as much.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“…It comforts those in pain
To know beforehand all the pain they still must bear.” ChorusSpeaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God, the playwright says, is concerned that man should learn wisdom, and has marked out the path; and it is a path of suffering. Men are in one sense free to learn or not to learn; but the painful condition of learning is inexorable. The nature of God, in other words, comprises two elements or principles, one harsh, the other gentle.
Speaker: Philip VellacottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!