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?"

"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

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"

Favorite Quotes from Last Weekend's Regional Conference

"When it comes to eternal progression, we must not rely on our long-term memory." 

-Elder Steven E. Snow

"You're doing better than you think you are!" 

-Sister Julie B. Beck

"If we could call upon the faith that Heavenly Father has promised, we could be doing better than we are." 

-Sister Julie B. Beck 

"The Spirit is key to knowing the mind and the will of our Heavenly Father." 

-Sister Julie B. Beck 

 "Miracles are happening and available for those who have enough faith in the Lord."

-Sister Julie B. Beck  

"Testimonies should be simple and deep, not complex and superficial."

-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

"When we find ourselves failing, there is someone around to lift us up."

-President Boyd K. Packer

"Go play with the children!"

-Elder Richard G. Scott

"When you live the commandments of Jesus Christ, you qualify for the guidance of the Lord."

-Elder Richard G. Scott

"To love another righteously is to protect, to elevate, to revere, to respect."

-Elder Richard G. Scott

"Marriage enables you to really find out who you are."

-Elder Richard G. Scott

What do you enjoy from Regional Conference?

It is not easy to go without.

"It is not easy to go without--without physical gratifications or spiritual assurances or material possessions--but sometimes we must since there is no guarantee of convenience written into our Christian covenant. We must work hard and do right, as Abraham Lincoln said, and sometimes our chance will come. And when we've tried, really tried, and waited for what seemed never to be ours, then 'the angels came and ministered unto him.'" 
-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

You are doing God's work. Yes, You.

"You are doing God's work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, --even--no, -especially--when your days and your nights may be most challenging. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master's garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and weep over their responsibility as mothers, `Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.' And it will make your children whole as well." 
— Jeffrey R. Holland