Eternal perspective

“Wife (to branch president husband): “It would be so nice if I could sit beside you sometimes in the meetings.” Husband: “How would you like to give a sacrament meeting talk next week?”

 

Joan P. Pearce, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England

“A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam.

It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.”

Harold B. Lee

 

“Hands that work are more blessed than Lips that pray” Howard W. Hunter

“Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval.” Thomas S. Monson

 

“Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.” Neal A. Maxwell

“God accomplishes His purposes heart to heart.” David B. Haight

“The scriptures that are never read will never help us.” L. Tom Perry

“We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.” Ted E. Brewerton

“Progress or perish.” B. H. Roberts

 

“Progress is not created by contented people.”
Russell C. Taylor

 

“It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.”
Gordon B. Hinckley

 

“Man is commanded of God to live by the sweat of his brow, not someone else’s.” Ezra Taft Benson

 

“Peace can come to both the giver and the receiver as we follow the promptings of the Spirit to serve one another.” Barbara W. Winder

 

“Those we serve, we love.”
Robert L. Backman

 

“Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next.” Ezra Taft Benson

 

“Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences.

Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives.”

James E. Faust

 

“All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.”
Neal A. Maxwell

 

The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions.

Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

Gordon B. Hinckley

 

 “Every burden on the back can become a gift in the hand.”
Elaine Cannon

 

“Procrastination . . . is the thief of our self-respect. It nags us and spoils our fun.

It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.”

Thomas S. Monson

 

“Live so as to have a quiet conscience.”
Richard L. Evans

 

“Progressing through life is like running a marathon . . . It requires a good start and a strong, consistent effort all of the way to the finish.”

Joseph B. Wirthlin

 

“A blessing always carries with it a responsibility.”
J. Reuben Clark Jr.

 

What a sweet, personal victory it is to recognize misdirection in one’s own life and to pay the price that then lets us walk in His paths.

 Marvin J. Ashton

 

“Time is numbered only to man. God has your eternal perspective in mind.”
Ezra Taft Benson