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 | "God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about
our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase
our capability!" | |
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Found in the topic God.
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| "Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by
a young woman who had had two abortions: "I wonder about the spirits of
those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt? I was under
three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels
movement." "I wonder if they are lost and alone?" "I wonder if they will
ever have a body?" "I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring
those spirits back as mine?" Alas, brothers and sisters, "wickedness never
was happiness" (Alma 41:10)." | |
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Found in the topic Abortion.
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| "Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon
to identify time and task challenges while these are still manageable and
while we still have a choice. The organizational adage, "the more parts,
the more trouble," also applies to words. Multiplying words may actually
multiply the probability of being misunderstood; economies in expression
(without being taciturn or aloof) not only save time, but usually are more
honest and more clear. Regarding writing down thoughts and ideas: often we
never recover what came to us once and went unused. What is the wisest use
I can make of this sliver of time? Commit rather explicitly to
goals." | |
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Found in the topic Time.
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| "The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to
comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at
the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations
will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we
will not be given more trials than we can sustain." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be
wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for
status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of
principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay
between time and truth, between minutes and morality." | |
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Found in the topic Discipline.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Challenge.
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| "Therefore, though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their
spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those
of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits
who have been reserved to live in this" | |
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Found in the topic Ancestors.
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| "Some mistakenly misread the mercy and graciousness of God. For
instance, some partial believers are always scolding God, or disregarding
Him, because of the observable and lamentable consequences of our misuse
of God"s gift to us of moral agency. It is as if a teenage son, given his
first car, promptly had an accident with resulting pain, suffering, and
expense, and the errant son then railed at his father for permitting the
suffering resulting from the son"s misuse of the gift of the automobile.
Granted, in defense of the analogy, mortal parents ought not to give
youngsters automobiles too soon, and then only when they have provided
wise counsel, driver training, and so on. But there still comes a time
when, if they are ever to drive alone, trained teenagers must be left
alone at the wheel. The principle is the same with us in the second
estate." | |
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Found in the topic Mercy.
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