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

Faith is always pointed toward the future.

"I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone, nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been....Faith is always pointed toward the future. Faith always has to do with blessings and truths and events that will yetbe efficacious in our lives. So a more theological way to talk about Lot’s wife is to say that she did not have faith. She doubted the Lord’s ability to give her something better than she already had. Apparently she thought—fatally, as it turned out—that nothing that lay ahead could possibly be as good as those moments she was leaving behind....

Some of you may be having thoughts such as these: Is there any future for me? What does a new year or a new semester or a new major or a new romance hold for me? Will I be safe? Will life be sound? Can I trust in the Lord and in the future? Or would it be better to look back, to go back, to go home?

To all such of every generation, I call out, “Remember Lot’s wife.” Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the “high priest of good things to come.”
- Elder Holland, "Remember Lot's Wife"

A Faith-Based work

"Oftentimes with young adults I’ll tell the story about the day my husband and I were married. We had three dollars. Even worldwide, that’s not very much money nowadays. It was a faith-based work when we got married. We didn’t get married because of money, or because our education was complete, or because we even had a place to live. We lived with Grandpa and took care of him for the first season of our marriage. We went to school and worked hard, but we entered that relationship as a faith-based work. We knew that we had made a covenant with the Lord and that He would bless us. It didn’t take money; it took faith."

-Julie B. Beck

"When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably." 
-Walt Disney

"We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes to unfold in our lives, on His timetable."
-Neal A. Maxwell

"Come what may, and love it." 

-Joseph B. Wirthlin

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?"

"I am sure God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait."
- C.S. Lewis

Both optimism and tears.

"I find comfort in the reality that we are sent to mourn with those that mourn. We are not sent to cheer them up. Even though Jesus knew that Lazarus would rise, He did not arrive at the tomb with smiles and assurances that all would be well. The loss was real. It is because He wept at the grave of His friend that I feel I can reach to Him with my own losses....My faith is rooted in both optimism and tears."

-Melissa Young, "Feeling the Loss"

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

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."

-Elder Claudio R.M. Costa

Don't run out ahead of Him

"Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. 'Corrie,' he began gently, 'when you and I go to Amsterdam - when do I give you your ticket?'
I sniffed a few times, considering this.
'Why, just before we get on the train.'
'Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need - just in time.'"
-Corrie Ten Boom, "The Hiding Place"

He thinks it's worth the risk.

"Of course God knows what will happen if we use our freedom the wrong way. Apparently He thinks it's worth the risk." 
- C.S. Lewis

Patience

"Patience is not indifference. Actually, it means caring very much but being willing to submit to the Lord." 
-Neal A. Maxwell

Lift Where You Stand

"Sometimes we do not hear the rest of what the Lord is telling us. 'Although you are worthy to serve in this position,' He may say, 'this is not my calling for you. It is my desire instead that you lift where you stand.' God knows what is best for us." 
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."

-Helen Keller

"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God."

-Karen Freeman

A lesson on forgiveness

 Warning: This will make you cry. But in a good way.

Thank goodness for the Gospel of Jesus Christ which helps us to change!

The life that is waiting for us

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
-E.M. Forester