Inspirational Powers: Happy New Years!

Today , is the first blank page of a 365 page book.

Write a good one.

“I rejoice that we have a Savior who had the goodness to come forth and redeem us and I rejoice that we have a Savior that yet looks forward to the redemption of the world.”

John Taylor

Just because being a mom is hard doesn’t mean you are doing it wrong.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

The attitude that you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Jim Henson

“Perfect love requires feelings and knowledge beyond those that most of us enjoy in our brief lives.”

Elliott D. Landau

“Yes, Christ changes men, and changed men can change the world.”

Ezra Taft Benson

“Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated

but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires.”

D. Todd Christofferson

“But is prayer only one-way communication? No! . . . At the end of our prayers, we need to do some intense listening – even for several minutes. We have prayed for counsel and help.

Now we must “be still and know that He is God”

Spencer W. Kimball

“When you feel overwhelmed by expectations and challenges, do not fight the battle alone…..

and drop to your knees in prayer.”

Anthony D. Perkins

“Man’s responsibility is correspondingly operative with his free agency. Actions in harmony with divine law and the laws of nature will bring happiness, and those in opposition to divine truth, misery. Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.”

David O. McKay

“At times we thoughtfully wonder why the miracle we have so earnestly prayed for does not happen here and now. But as we trust in the Savior, promised miracles will occur. Whether in this life or the next, all will be made right. The Savior declares: ‘Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.’ ‘In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.’”

Neil L. Andersen

“Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and

merely nibble at the feast placed before them.”

Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men’s souls.”

Spencer W. Kimball

“If you have faith enough to move a mountain; grab a shovel.

If you have faith enough that the Lord can move a mountain; get out of the way!”

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“The Lord does not expect that we commit to move mountains. But He does require that we bring as gifts our best efforts to move ourselves, one foot in front of the other, walking in the ways He has prepared and taught.”

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“If we don’t set goals… and learn how to work toward their achievement, we can look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential.”

M. Russell Ballard

“Desire is the pilot of the soul.”

Sterling W. Sill

“Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest.

Where it is, the Spirit is not.”

William R. Bradford

“To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble,

the applause of heaven warms their hearts.”

Ezra Taft Benson

“Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.”

Neal A. Maxwell

“….. to those of you who have been blessed by the gospel for many years because you were fortunate enough to find it early, to those of you who have come to the gospel by stages and phases later, and to those of you—members and not yet members—who may still be hanging back, to each of you, one and all, I testify of the renewing power of God’s love and the miracle of His grace. His concern is for the faith at which you finally arrive, not the hour of the day in which you got there. So if you have made covenants, keep them. If you haven’t made them, make them. If you have made them and broken them, repent and repair them. It is never too late so long as the Master of the vineyard says there is time. Please listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit telling you right now, this very moment, that you should accept the atoning gift of the Lord Jesus Christ and enjoy the fellowship of His labor. Don’t delay. It’s getting late.”

Jeffrey R. Holland