We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.
If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.
The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we ‘give’ are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.
True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.
We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.
Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.
The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord’s loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.
Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!
We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.
Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.
The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.
God will facilitate, but He will not force.
Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.
Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.
Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.
Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?
There is no democracy of facts.
Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things.
God’s extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it isn’t a trial.