Quotes of the Week

 Often, when we look at ourselves, we see only our limitations and deficiencies. We might think we have to be more of something for God to use us--more intelligent, more wealthy, more charismatic, more talented, more spiritual. Blessings will come not so much because of your abilities but because of your choices. And the God of our universe will work within and through you, magnifying your humble efforts for His purposes. His work has always advanced on this important principle: out of small things proceedeth that which is great.
--Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When we consider the goodness of our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, our trust in Them increases. Our prayers change because we know God is our Father and we are His children. We seek not to change His will but to align our will with His and secure for ourselves blessings that he wants to grant, conditioned on our asking for them.
--Dale G. Renlund

All of these mortal burdens will pass away and there will be no more pain. I pray that we will all understand the hope and strength of our Savior's Atonement: the assurance of immortality, the opportunity for eternal life, and the sustaining strength we can receive if only we will ask.
--Dallin H. Oaks

Quotes of the Week

 The Savior makes all things right. No injustice in mortality is permanent, even death, for He restores life again. No injury, disability, betrayal, or abuse, goes uncompensated in the end because of His ultimate justice and mercy.
--D. Todd Christofferson

In these times, we can learn much of God's goodness and our divine potential for God's love to grow in us as we seek Him and reach out to each other. In new ways and new places, we can do and become, line upon line, kindness upon kindness, individually and together. 
--Gerrit W. Gong

We are not alone in our mortal journey. The Savior understands us because He is not an abstraction. Because He is living, breathing, real Son of God as each of us is. I declare personally that Christ does know us. He has walked the thorny, difficult rock-strewn path of our lives.
--Jeffrey R. Holland

Quotes of the Week

 As a Church, we believe in fathers. We believe in the ideal of the man who puts his family first. We believe that far from being superfluous, fathers are unique and irreplaceable... The perfect, divine expression of fatherhood is our Heavenly Father. His character and attributes include abundant goodness and perfect love. His work and glory are the development, happiness, and eternal life of His children.
--D. Todd Christofferson

Perhaps the most essential of a father's work is to turn the hearts of his children to their Heavenly Father. If by his example as well as his words a father can demonstrate what fidelity to God looks like in day-to-day living, that father will have given his children the key to peace in this life and eternal life in the world to come.
--D. Todd Christofferson

When you pray with real conviction, "Please let me know Thy will" and "May Thy will be done", you are in the strongest position to receive the maximum help from your loving Father.
--Richard G. Scott

Quotes of the Week

 To all of  you who have challenges, concerns, disappointments, or heartaches with a dear one, know this: with infinite love and everlasting compassion, God our Heavenly Father loves your afflicted one, and He loves you!
--Ronald A. Rasband

The word of the Lord in the scriptures is like a lamp to guide our feet (see Psalm 119:105), and revelation is like a mighty force that increases the lamp's illumination manyfold. 

The idea that scripture reading can lead to inspiration and revelation opens the door to the truth that a scriptures is not limited to what it meant when it was written but may also include what that scripture means to the reader today. What a scripture in the Book of Mormon meant to me when I first read it at age 16 is not conclusive upon me as I read it at age 85.

With the benefit of my life's experiences and with my great familiarity with revelation, I can learn things that were not available to me yesterday by reading the scriptures today.

We are encouraged to read the scriptures again and again. That is one reason Latter-day Saints believe in daily scripture study. By that means, we obtain access to what our Heavenly Father would have us know and do in our personal lives today.
--Dallin H. Oaks