“Yesterday I was so clever I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise so I am changing myself.”
(Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, 13th-century Persian poet,
jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic)
“For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and
floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my
blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, as
willows by the water courses.”
(Isaiah 44:3-4)
“This is the principle of stewardship. As the kingdom
grows larger, more and more responsibilities have to be delegated and
stewardships handed out. Men respond in different degrees of valiancy to their
stewardships. God is very patient and long-suffering as he waits for some of us
to rise to our responsibilities. He usually gives a man a long enough rope and
a long enough time either to pull himself up to the presence of God or to drop
off somewhere below. But while God is patient, no puny arm of man in his
stewardship can long impede or pervert the work of the Lord. The mills of God
grind slowly, but they grind ever so finely.”
(Ezra Taft Benson, BYU Devotional, December 10, 1974)
“The Light of Christ should not be confused with the
personage of the Holy Ghost, for the Light of Christ is not a personage at all.
Its influence is preliminary to and preparatory to one’s receiving the Holy
Ghost. The Light of Christ will lead the honest soul to “hearkeneth to the
voice”, to find the true gospel and the true Church and thereby receive the Holy
Ghost.”
(Joseph B Wirthlin, April Conference 2003)
“It seems almost beyond comprehension to think that He paid
this enormous price for me and for each of you. And yet, as far as we are
concerned individually, unless you and I do our part, His atonement will have
been in vain. It is that covenant relationship—that mutual trust—that makes His
atonement such a personal gift. It brings us protection, perennial hope, and
the promise of joy.”
(Russell M Nelson, BYU Devotional, 6 January 1991)
“Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and
every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is
a mirror transmitting to others the ways of a supreme and ever-shining
benevolence.”
(Washington Irving)
“Yet whatever he learned about ministering more
effectively, he also saw that he couldn't hold every marriage together or
ignite every wavering testimony. But he did learn to take personal problems
seriously, and that alone expanded his vision and that of the people he
counseled.”
(Bruce C Hafen, describing Neal A Maxwell during his time
as bishop of a college ward in A Disciple's Life, the Autobiography of Neal A
Maxwell, Deseret Book 2002, 310)
“When the flurry of motion became too much, she looked up
ahead and fixed her gaze on a particular tree, following it as it slowly
approached, streaked past, and the gradually receded behind her. Was life like
that? You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present
moved too quickly to absorb. Maybe sometimes.”
(Brandon Mull, Fablehaven, page one)
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