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that you have a deep reservoir of faith to call upon when tasks or challenges or demands of one kind or another come. Pray and study, fast appropriately, search your soul and search the heavens for the testimony that led our pioneer parents. Then, when you need to reach down inside a little deeper and a little farther to face life and do your work, you will be sure there is something down there deeper and farther to call upon.
can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner."
"The honest payment of tithing provides a person the inner strength and commitment to comply with the other commandments."
Paying tithing is not a token gift we are somehow charitably bestowing upon God. Paying tithing is discharging a debt.
The candles we hold up for others to see ought to be extensions of the light within ourselves. What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first face any tattered remnant of darkness that remains in our own souls.
Any weakness, any uncertainty, any wavering—that will never be in God. Take my word for it. We do not need to waste any breath inquiring haltingly of Him, "If thou canst do any thing . . ." Trust me, or rather trust Him—He can not only do anything, he can do everything. No, the challenge is always with us. As one scholar said in a different context, "When the infinite fullness is poured forth, it is not the oil's fault if there is loss. It will only be the fault of the vessels that fail to contain
Everything in the conversion process must happen to you before it can happen to them—everything.
the measure of your personal conversion and whether or not you hold fast to the ideals of the Church will depend in great measure on your conviction that Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God,
"Whoever heard of true religion without communication with God? To me the thing is the most absurd that the human mind could conceive of.
without revelation religion is a mockery and a farce. . . . The principle of present revelation . . . is the very foundation of our religion."
when those mists of darkness enveloped the travelers in Lehi's vision of the tree of life, it enveloped all of the participants—the righteous as well as the unrighteous, the young along with the elderly, the new convert and seasoned member alike. In that allegory all face opposition and travail, and only the rod of iron—the declared word of God—can bring them safely through. We all need that rod.
To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long, to every one of you who worry that you are stranded somewhere on the wintry plains of life and have wrecked your handcart in the process, we call out Jehovah's unrelenting refrain, "[My] hand is stretched out still"
His is the pure love of Christ, the charity that never faileth, that compassion which endures even when all other strength disappears
moments. I have beheld the power of God manifest in my home and in my ministry. I have seen evil rebuked and the elements controlled. I know what it means to have mountains of difficulty move and ominous Red Seas part. I know what it means to have the destroying angel "pass by them"
