Joseph Fielding Smith on Procrastination
“Procrastination as it is applied to gospel principles, is the thief of eternal life.” Joseph Fielding Smith
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Joseph Smith – God will feel after you and wrench your heart strings
“You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary that you be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God . . . God will feel after you and he … Continue reading →
Joseph Smith – Eternal Life is obtained through sacrifice
“Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation . . . It was through this sacrifice [of all earthly … Continue reading →
Bruce C. Hafen – We Can Have Eternal Life if We Want It
“We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more.” Bruce C. Hafen – “The Atonement: All for All,” Ensign, May 2004, 98
Continue reading →Truman G. Madsen on What Heavenly Father Wants for Us
“Now, brothers and sisters, prophets have lived and died to reestablish in the world in our generation that glorious truth–that what the Eternal Father wants for you and with you is the fullness of your possibilities. And those possibilities are … Continue reading →
Robert D. Hales on Coming to Know our Heavenly Father
“Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life: ‘And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent’ (John 17:3). How … Continue reading →
Harold B. Lee on Eternal Life
“Our existence is eternal. We use words rather loosely when we speak of the “life before this, and this life, and the next life,” as though we were a cat of nine lives, when as a matter of fact we … Continue reading →
Brigham Young on Overcoming Temptation
“The spirit is pure, and under the special control and influence of the Lord. . . . Recollect, brethren and sisters, everyone of you, that when evil is suggested to you, when it arises in your hearts, it is through … Continue reading →
St. Francis of Assisi – Prayer of Saint Francis
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, … Continue reading →
Brigham Young on Men Ruling Themselves
“Now those men, or those women, who know no more about the power of God, and the influence of the Holy Spirit, than to be led entirely by another person, suspending their own understanding, and pinning their faith upon another’s … Continue reading →
