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Blessed is he who will not be offended

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things.

Anger should never be an overnight guest.

Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

It's service, not status, that counts.

The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.

When we feel so alone, we cannot presume to teach him who, at the apogee of his agony, trod "the winepress alone" anything about feeling forsaken.

God will facilitate, but He will not force.

You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.

We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.

A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it's fair, it isn't a trial.

The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

Oh, how great the plan of our God!

In order for men to partake of the fruit of felicity,they must plant the seeds thereof.

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

Sometimes the best people ... have the worst experiences ... because they are ready to learn

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.

For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just
following our darkest hours.

On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

Listening is one of the forms of love.

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.

Mother lode of learning.

He knows that in leadership cleverness is not as important as content, that charisma and dash are not as vital as character and doctrine.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.

When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

Giving up on God and on oneself constitutes simultaneous surrender to the natural man.

Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.

Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.

It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.

The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.

The Savior knows what it's like to die of cancer.

Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

Alas, in our age, some arrogantly believe that if they cannot comprehend something, then God cannot comprehend it, either.

The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.

Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

God's grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

Let the scriptures refresh you.

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

The good life is the best preparation for bad times.

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

The true Christian is a communicator.

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.

Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.

Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

Work is always a spiritual necessity even if, for some, work is not an economic necessity.

He knows that having put his hand to the plow he must not look back, because when we are looking back, we are also holding back.

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.

Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.

Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.

God's anger is kindled not because we have harmed him but because we have harmed ourselves.

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.