Our desires influence our choices

"The deep hurt is the mirror image of the deep joy that still awaits you."

Bruce C. Hafen

"To miss the misery is to miss the joy.

And to miss the joy is to miss it all."

Bruce C. Hafen

We go to the temple to make covenants,

but we go home to keep them

"I have come to understand that before choices, come our desires. Our desires influence our choices… Because many of our thoughts are private, protected, and hidden from view, our actions for a time may not always reflect our inner desires. However, eventually, our inner desires are given life and

they are seen in our choices and in our actions."

Neil L. Andersen

"Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly ever so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening so carefully or we will never recognize them. Most answers from the Lord are felt in our heart as a warm comfortable expression, or they may come as thoughts to our mind. They come to those who are prepared and who are patient."

H. Burke Peterson

Heavenly Father has not left us alone during our mortal probation. He has already given us all the safety equipment we will need to successfully return to Him. He has given us personal prayer, the scriptures, living prophets, and the Holy Ghost to guide us. At times, using this equipment may seem cumbersome, awkward, and horribly unfashionable. Its proper use requires our diligence, obedience, and persistence.

But I, for one, choose to use it. We must all choose to use it.

Ann M. Dibb

"If our words are not consistent with our actions,

they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds."

H. Burke Peterson

"Unwise patterns, when continued too long, have a way of visiting us with regret in the long run."

Wayne E. Brickey

"Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned into the image of all we have seen and heard, known and meditated; and if we learn to live with all that is fairest and purest and best , the love of it all will in the end become our life. "

 David B. Haight

"The Lord never asks the impossible.

Often the difficult, but never the impossible."

 David B. Haight