Favorite Quotes

"When the student is ready, the teacher appears."
Buddhist provery

"If it was not food a hundred years ago,
it's not food today."

"Everyone you know is fighting a battle you know
nothing about.  Be kind.  Always."

" I'm of the opinion that we're always on holy ground and
some days it's just more apparent. "
Jason Gray

"The ability to qualify for, receive and act on personal

revelation is the single most important skill that can

be acquired in this life."

Julie Beck

"When obedience ceases to ben an irritant and becomes our quest,

in that moment God will endow us with power."

Ezra Taft Benson

"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."

Neal A. Maxwell

"You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day-

 unless you're too busy;

then you should sit for an hour."

Zen Buddist

"Grace happens anyway; the least we can do is be there."

Annie Dillard

" The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all."

Carl Jung

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Edith Wharton

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

George Eliot

"The only conquest that brings satisfaction is the conquest of self."

President Gordon B. Hinckley

"The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, 
only fan the fires of faith in others."   

Neal A. Maxwell

"A time comes when silence is betrayal."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."

Benjamin Franklin

"If you can't feed 100 people, then feed one."

Mother Teresa

"People see God every day; they just don't recognize Him."

Pearl Bailey

"Real character is formed in the midst of the battles of the soul."

Hugh B. Brown

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to 

accomplish humble tasks as thought they were great and noble."

Helen Keller

"The instrument through which you see God is your whole self.  And if a man's

self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the 

moon seen through a dirty telescope."

C. S. Lewis

"Our challenge is not getting the Lord to speak to us; our challenge is 

understanding what He has to say."

Sheri Dew

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"It's not enough to be busy...the question is: what are we busy about?"

Henry David Thoreau

"We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children

to heaven, but we can determine what we will do.  And we can decide that we

will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want

so much to have forever."

Elder Henry B. Eyring

"If a care is too small to be turned into a prayer, it is too small to be made into a burden."

Corrie ten Boom

"If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart.  The sun puts

on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping."

Ada Teixeira