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

"And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more." 

- Doctrine and Covenants 78:19

Please God

"A Church leader whom I highly regard told me recently that in his earlier days he was preoccupied with trying to please the people of this Church until in utter fatigue and confusion he decided instead to focus on pleasing God, letting God then worry about pleasing the people. This decision freed him to be who he really was and to find powers he didn't know he had. He said, 'For the first time in my life I saw clearly my own divine potential.' " 
-Patricia T. Holland, "An Eye Single"

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

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

"No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity."
-Neal A. Maxwell

Patience.

"Patience—the ability to put our desires on hold for a time—is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it now. Therefore, the very idea of patience may seem unpleasant and, at times, bitter.'Nevertheless, without patience, we cannot please God; we cannot become perfect.'" 

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Continue in Patience"

There are no Ordinary People

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splendors....Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat, the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden."

-C.S. Lewis