Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.
Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.
When we don’t like to face up to hard facts, we use soft words. We do not speak about killing a baby within the womb, but about “termination of potential life.” Words are often multiplied to try to cover dark deeds.
Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.
Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to ‘come off conqueror.’ It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.
Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has died down and the cheering has stopped, they will face a smaller audience, the judgment bar of God.
The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.
Unproductive worry – like Parkinson’s proverbial law – tends to expand to fill the time available.
Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its “processor.” for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man’s soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.
We can’t dwell upon another’s ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.
The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.
I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane. I thank Him for bearing what I added to the decibels of His piercing soul cry atop Calvary.
The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.
We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice – for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.
God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.
When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.
Mother lode of learning.
Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.
At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!
Don’t fear, just live right.