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

"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

Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men!

This is worth the whole 8 1/2 minutes. Please watch!





Merry Christmas!

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"Having put our hand to the plow we must not look back, because when we are looking back, we are also holding back."

-Neal A. Maxwell

He wants you to succeed!

"My dear brothers and sisters, there will be days and nights when you feel overwhelmed, when your hearts are heavy and your heads hang down. Then, please remember, Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, is the Head of this Church. It is His gospel. He wants you to succeed. He gave His life for just this purpose. He is the Son of the living God."

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Have We Not Reason to Rejoice?"

You don't just quit

"Yes, the job was hard, but quit? No. This was the one time in my life when I knew I was exactly where the Lord wanted me to be. And when you know something like that, you don’t just quit because you’re sleepy."
-Heather Oman, "Breathing"

"If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain. He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful."
-Terri Guillemets

"We shouldn't complain about life not being a rose garden when we remember who wore the crown of thorns."
-Neal A. Maxwell

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”  

- Winston Churchill

“With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ”  

- Sir Thomas Buxton

You don't have to be pretty.

"You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female.'" 

-Erin McKean 

I am doing a great work and cannot come down

"The Lord is seeking men like Nehemiah—faithful brethren who fulfill the oath and covenant of the priesthood. He seeks to enlist unfaltering souls who diligently go about the work of building the kingdom of God—those who, when faced with opposition and temptation, say in their hearts, 'I am doing a great work and cannot come down.'”

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "We are Doing a Great Work and Cannot Come Down"

Be nobody but yourself.

"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." 

-e e cummings

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' " 
-Mary Anne Radmacher

Sunday will come.

"Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. 

"But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come....The Resurrection transformed the lives of those who witnessed it.  Should it not transform ours?"

- Joseph B. Wirthlin, "Sunday Will Come"

They love you perfectly.

"Your Father in Heaven and His Beloved Son love you perfectly. They would not require you to experience a moment more of difficulty than is absolutely needed for your personal benefit or for that of those you love."

-Richard G. Scott

The Joy and Glory of the Climb

“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”

-Winston Churchill

“All you have to do is trust your Heavenly Father. Trust Him enough to follow His plan.”

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Your Happily Ever After”