- It has been said that the door of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives.
- The choices we make determine our destiny.
- If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.
- May we choose to build up within ourselves a great and powerful faith which will be our most effective defense against the designs of the adversary--a real faith, the kind of faith which will sustain us and will bolster our desire to choose the right.
- May we maintain the courage to defy the consensus. May we ever choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong.
- As we contemplate the decisions we make in our lives each day--whether to make this choice or that choice--if we choose Christ, we will have made the correct choice.
Bonnie L. Oscarson -Do I Believe?
- Do we sometimes become so accustomed to the blessings we have been given ... that we fal to fully comprehend the miracle?
W. Christopher Waddell -A Pattern for Peace
- In our journey through mortality, as glorious as our intended destination may be and as exhilarating as the journey may prove, we will all be subject to trials and sorrow along the way.
- The dial on the wheel of sorrow eventually points to each of us. At one time or another, everyone most experience sorrow. No one is exempt.
- Our ability to travel this road in peace is, in large part, dependent on whether or not we too have a hard time thinking about Jesus.
- Peace of mind, peace of conscience, and peace of heart are not determined by our ability to avoid trials, sorrow, or heartache.
- Truth is found in the simplicity of a Primary song: "Words of a prophet: Keep the commandments. In this there is safety and peace."
- However far we may wander from the path, the Savior invites us to return and walk with Him.
D. Todd Christofferson -Fathers
- We believe in fathers. We believe in "the ideal of the man who puts his family first."
- We believe that far from being superfluous, fathers are unique and irreplaceable.
- The key for men is to be fathers. The key for children is to have fathers. The key for society is to create fathers.
- For men, fatherhood exposes us to our own weaknesses and our need to improve.
- Fatherhood requires sacrifice, but it is a source of incomparable satisfaction, even joy.
- The Lord expects fathers to help shape their children, and children want and need a model.
- Discipline in the divine pattern is not so much about punishing as it is about helping a loved one along the path of self-mastery.
- Work and family are overlapping domains.
- It should be noted that God Himself entrusted His Only Begotten Son to a foster father. Surely some of the credit goes to Joseph for the fact that as Jesus grew. He "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man."
- Despite our limitations, let us press on.
Quentin L. Cook -See Yourself in the Temple
- We are all equal before God.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf -He Will Place You on His Shoulders and Carry You Home
- If man can take the ruins, rubble, and remains of a broken city and rebuild an awe-inspiring structure that rises toward the heavens, how much more capable is our Almighty Father to restore His children who have fallen, struggled, or become lost?
- There is no life so shattered that it cannot be restored.
- God is fully aware of those who are lost--and that He will find them, that He will reach out to them, and that He will rescue them?
- It matters not how you became lost--whether because of your own poor choices or because of circumstances beyond your control.
- What matters is that you are His child. And He loves you. He loves His children.
- Because He loves you, He will find you.
- If you cannot muster faith right now, begin with hope.
- If our faith does not change the way we live--if our beliefs do not influence our daily decisions--our religion is vain, and our faith, if not dead, is certainly not well and is in danger of eventually flatlining.
- Obedience is the lifeblood of faith. It is by obedience that we gather light into our souls.
- Obedience is not so much the process of bending, twisting, and pounding our souls into something we are not. Instead, it is the process by which we discover what we truly are made of.
- The love of God fills our hearts, the light of truth fills our minds, we start to lose the desire to sin, and we do not want to walk any longer in darkness.
- Obedience isn't a punishment but a liberating path to our divine destiny.
Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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