"It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up."

-Neal A. Maxwell

Choose Faith!

"Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism. " 
-Richard C. Edgely

"Yes, I have doubted. I have wandered off the path, but I have always returned. It is intuitive, an intrinsic, built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home. My faith has wavered but has saved me."

-Helen Hayes

"With a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

-Thomas Jefferson, "The Declaration of Independence" 

For all you introverts out there...

"The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting."

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, "Gift From the Sea"

Where is Wisdom?

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

-T.S. Eliot  

Also quoted in this Mormon Message: 

On Pride and Self-Esteem

"The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough. Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.' If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men’s, we will have self-esteem."

-President Ezra Taft Benson, "Beware of Pride"

We do not obtain our heavenly reward by punching a time clock. What is essential is that our labors in the workplace of the Lord have caused us to become something." 
-Elder Dallin H. Oaks, "The Challenge to Become"

"God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer." 

-Justin Bieber

(ironically)

“This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world. She who can paint a masterpiece or write a book that will influence millions deserves the admiration and the plaudits of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters, whose influence will be felt through generations to come, . . . deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God.”

-David O. McKay

"Happiness and work rise up together with the sun, radiant like it."
-Paul Gauguin

"Church may at times, seem like an echo chamber, but just as the challenges of life repeat themselves, so must the Master’s teachings."

-Elder Neal A. Maxwell

Look for Christ

"Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”

-C.S. Lewis

"God helps me - that's what I think, and then I am calm."
-Carl Heinrich Bloch

Dating and Discipleship

"You want capability, safety, and security in dating and romance, in married life and eternity? Be a true disciple of Jesus. Be a genuine, committed, word-and-deed Latter-day Saint. Believe that your faith has everything to do with your romance, because it does. You separate dating from discipleship at your peril."

-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, "How Do I Love Thee?"

"No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed."
-C.S. Lewis

"We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others."
-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." 
- Bill Cosby

"We must have the courage to be imperfect while striving for perfection." 

-Patricia Holland

"God's love is not wearied by our sins; is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him."

-C.S. Lewis

"We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them." 
- William Arthur Ward

"Marriage should be beautiful and fulfilling, with joy beyond our fondest dreams."
-Elder David B. Haight

"When will we stop saying prayers and start actually praying?"
-Unknown

"We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen." 
- President Spencer W. Kimball

"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection." 
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Christ says,  ‘Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. I don’t want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. Hand over the natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked – the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.’"
-C.S. Lewis