I Will Lead You Along Quotes

“When you get a watercolor working right, the feeling of illumination is like a deeply spiritual thing.”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“There will be times when you will feel overwhelmed. One of the ways you will be attacked is with the feeling that you are inadequate. Well, you are inadequate to answer a call to represent God with only your own powers. But you have access to more than your natural capacities, and you do not work alone.”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“I bear you my testimony that the broken heart and contrite spirit that are the requirements for forgiveness are also its fruits. The very humility that is the sign of having been forgiven is protection against”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“Hal’s conclusions but to have reached similar conclusions themselves. They were wise realists, so much so that Hal began to wonder how they might have reacted had he made the”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“As his two-year assignment drew to a close, Hal’s superiors ordered him to summarize and report what he had learned. He hadn’t expected such an assignment, and he wrestled long in choosing the right message. On the one hand, he knew that his superiors wouldn’t like his finding that they couldn’t have everything, that even the best weapon design would”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“The student with whom Hal shared a bedroom, Englishman John Abel Smith, bore educational credentials that Hal could only dimly conceive. John was the namesake of a renowned merchant banker and British Member of Parliament. He had attended Eton, one of the world’s most famous preparatory schools, before entering Cambridge, where he had “read” under the personal tutelage of English scholars. Hal began to understand the difference between his public-school education and the background of his roommates when he surveyed them relative to a reading list he came across. It was titled, “One Hundred Books Every Educated Person Ought to Have Read.” George Montgomery and Powell Cabot had read approximately seventy and eighty, respectively. John Abel Smith had read all but four. Hal had read (though not necessarily finished) six. Hal also felt his social inferiority. He had long known that his parents weren’t fashionable. His mother never had her hair done in a beauty parlor. His father owned only one pair of dress shoes at a time and frequently took long trips abroad with nothing but his briefcase and a single change of underwear, washing his clothes—including a “wash-and-wear” suit—in hotel sinks at night. That was part of the reason why Hal took an expensive tailored suit—a broad-shouldered pinstripe—and a new fedora hat to Boston. He knew that he needed to rise to a new level, fashion-wise. But he realized that his fashion statement had failed when Powell Cabot asked, late in October, to borrow his suit and hat. Hal’s swell of pride turned to chagrin when Powell explained his purpose—he had been invited to a Halloween costume party, and he wanted to go as a gangster.”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“He is in the spirit world today among the noble prophets who have lived on the earth. He is surely aware of our sorrow and our sense of loss at our separation from him. He knew at the end of his life the pain in his heart of losing someone he loved. If we told him of our grief, he would listen carefully, and then I think he would say something like this, with sympathy in his voice but with a sound in it that would bring a smile to our lips, “Oh, it will work out.”8 Hal ended”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“He knew, and I have come to feel, that only the Father, His Beloved Son, and the Holy Ghost can provide the assurance we all need to go forward boldly in our service. It is not what we have done that matters. It is how our hearts have been changed through our faithful obedience. And only God knows that.”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“their consecration will have allowed the Atonement to change who they are.11”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“What they will do to prove”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“women to consecrate all they have and all they are to the service of God. They covenant to do that. And then He tests them to see how sincere they are and how much they are willing to sacrifice. That test may be different for each of us, tailored for us alone, but it will be enough for the Master to prove our hearts. Those who welcome”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“my critics as I believe that I am still a child with lots to learn. Most folks can teach me something. No one can really take away the freedom that matters to me, and most criticism from human beings awakens an echo of a rebuke I’ve already felt from the Holy Ghost.5”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“Kathy called, just as I was leaving for another training meeting of the General Authorities. She had given me earlier her draft of the minutes she takes for the luncheon of the wives of General Authorities. She asked me to read them to her. And then, she proceeded to ask for criticism to get it straight. After a few minutes, she had what she wanted. As I thought about it later, I realized that the reason Kathy is so frequently mentioned by the other wives as a great writer of minutes is that she is teachable: she seeks counsel, instead of praise. And she is that way in everything.”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“People in authority may call you to a position of leadership. You may be given great powers to discipline and to reward those you are to lead. But your power to lead them will at last be granted by their choice to follow you, without compulsion. —Talk, April 23, 19984”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“Hal particularly enjoyed drawing and painting as he traveled. He took postcard-sized art paper and, while waiting in an airport or taking a private moment in the home of a generous host, would capture a scene of an intriguing place or person. On a long trip, Kathy and the children might receive one of these original postcards in the mail. Upon his return home, Hal would send a similar custom-made thank-you note to his host. He found drawing and painting not only diverting but spiritually uplifting and even revelatory.”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

“With the birth of each child, he was blessed to sense that child’s inherent goodness. Armed with that conviction, and with Professor Bauer’s great behavioral insight, he learned to see any weakness in his children as the product of a mistaken perception of reality made by an inherently good person. In helping them see those misperceptions, he worked not from their apparent personal weaknesses but from their potential strengths. He sensed that the weaknesses were rooted largely in fear and self-doubt, and so he took every opportunity to build faith and self-confidence.”
― Robert I. Eaton, I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring