Robert D. Hales -Becoming Provident Providers Temporally and Spiritually
- Each temptation we overcome is to strengthen us, not destroy us. The Lord will never allow us to suffer beyond what we can endure.
- We must remember that the adversary knows us extremely well. He knows where, when and how to tempt us. If we are obedient to the promptings of the Holy Ghost, we can learn to recognize the adversary's enticements. Before we yield to temptation, we must learn to say with unflinching resolve, "Get thee behind me, Satan."
- Our success is never measured by how strongly we are tempted but by how faithfully we respond.
- These two lessons are the essence of provident living. When faced with the choice to buy, consume, or engage in worldly things and activities, we all need to learn to say to one another, "We can't afford it, even though we want it!" or "We can afford it, but we don't need it--and we really don't even want it!"
Margaret S. Lifferth -Respect and Reverence
- May I suggest that our ability and our credibility to exemplify reverence for God is strengthened as we show respect for each other. In today's society, the standards of decorum, dignity, and courtesy are assailed on every side and in every form of media. As parents and leaders, our examples of respect for each other are critical for our youth and children because they are watching not only the media--they are watching us! Are we the examples we need to be?
- If reverence is rooted in love, so is the teaching of it. Harshness in our training begets resentment, not reverence. So begin early and have reasonable expectations. A toddler canlearn to fold his arms and get ready for prayer. But it takes time, patience, and consistency. Remember that we are not only teaching a child his first lessons in reverence, but the child may be mastering his first attempts at self-discipline.
- Often the child who is the most disruptive needs your love the most.
Michael A. Neider -Revealed Quorum Principles
- My young brethren and sisters, you are powerful tools in the Savior's hands, and He can use you to bring the blessings of the gospel to others.
Allan F. Packer -Finding Strength in Challenging Times!
- We must know--and know that we know. We must stand spiritually and temporally independent of all worldly creatures.
- We need to be acquainted with the promptings of the Holy Ghost, and we need to practice and apply gospel teachings until they become natural and automatic. These promptings become the foundation of our testimonies. Then our testimonies will keep us happy and safe in troubled times.
- "A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus."
- While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith's vision before they gain testimonies. If we have unrealistic expectations of how, when or where answers come, we risk missing the answers which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts that most often come after our prayers, while we are doing something else. These answers can be equally convincing and powerful.
- In time, a personal witness will come and we will know--and know that we know. We will then independent of all other worldly things, for "by the power of the Holy Ghost [we] may know the truth of all things" which are right and expedient for us. We will receive strength, comfort, and help to make good decisions and act with confidence in troubled times.
D. Todd Christofferson -The Power of Covenants
- Keeping covenants with God that gives us the power to smile through hardships, to convert tribulation into triumph, to "be anxiously engaged in a good cause, ... and bring to pass much righteousness."
Henry B. Eyring -Adversity
- Even when you feel the truth of that capacity and kindness of the Lord to deliver you in your trials, it may still test your courage and strength to endure.
- "My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;"
- "And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes."
- "Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands."
Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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