Jesus Christ

We can learn spiritual lessons if we can approach suffering,

 sorrow or grief with a focus on Christ.  - Keith Edwards

Perspective

That which is essential is invisible to the eye.

Suffering

We may never know why some things happen in this life.

 The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.  

- James E. Faust

Success

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.  - Jim Rohn

Prayer

Just pray for a tough hide & a tender heart. - Ruth Graham

Christmas

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. 

- Henry David Thoreau

Love

I’ve decided to stick with love. Hate is too great of a burden to bear. 

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Service

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because 

God did not take care of him or her.  It happened because 

neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. 

 - Mother Teresa

Beginning

Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, 

anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.  - Carl Bard

Perseverance

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart.  

So it has been with the best people who ever lived.  - Jeffery R. Holland

Holy Ghost

When the spirit is with us we have power beyond ourselves. - Rob Richards

Happiness

Happiness is not found but molded day by day

Beauty

Do not be deceived, true beauty lies within.-  Beauty & the Beast

Change

Change is as good as you make it.  - Jake Jutkins

Christmas

Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.  - Carol Nelson

Caring

We are cups, constantly, quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip 

ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.  - Ray Bradbury

Education

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. 

- Nelson Mandela

Freedom

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. 
- Abraham Lincoln

Obedience

When we love the Lord, obedience ceases to be a burden. 

Obedience becomes a delight. When we love the Lord, 

we seek less for things that benefit us and turn our hearts 

toward things that will bless and uplift others. - Joseph B. Wirthlin

Happiness

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life,

 it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. - Gordon B. Hinckley

Trials

Our difficulties can increase our strength and compassion. 

Noble characters do not alone bear trouble, they use it.

Love

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, 

while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu

Smile

The world is like a mirror, frown at it and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.  

- Herbert Samuels

Friends

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget. - Anon

Temptation

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. - Leonardo da Vinci

Families

Families are fragile, and the list of things I cannot fix is long, 

but I can make and keep sacred covenants, and I will, because I know

 that the list of things my Heavenly Father can fix is infinite. - Angela Gubler

Adversity

Adversity introduces man to himself. 

Success

God didn't send you here to fail, he sent you here to succeed.-  Lauren Jennings

Choices

Our lives are nothing but a series of choices – and that you always, always,

 have the chance to choose a different path.  - James A. Owen

Goals

It takes a long time to reach a worthy goal. 

You need desire, courage, determination and a plan.  - Janet Fisher

Progression

Discontent is the first element of progress.-  Thomas Edison

Gratitude

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we did not learn a lot today, 

as least we learned a little, and if we did not learn a little, 

at least we did not get sick and if we got sick at least we did not die; so, 

let us all be thankful.  Buddha

Choices

Be sure your put your feet in the right place then stand firm. - Abraham Lincoln

Taking Chances

What kind of man would live where there is no daring?  

I don’t believe in taking chances, but nothing can be 

accomplished without taking any chance at all. - Charles Lindbergh

Perspective

Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe in the one reason it will.

Effort

The way to get started is to quit taking and begin doing. - Walt Disney

Success

Success is a lousy teacher. 

It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. - Bill Gates

Potential

A tree can grow only as tall as a tree can grow, 

but a human being can choose how tall to grow.

Perspective

If everything was perfect here on earth, then you wouldn’t know the difference 

when you got to heaven.  - Leonard Starkey

Envolvement

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. 

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love

Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or 

bridge the chasms of bitterness.  - Gordon B. Hinckley

Change

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving 

behind is part of ourselves. - Amelia Barr

Forgiveness

By forgiving others, we free ourselves from the burden of hatred and prepare 

ourselves for eternal life.  - George Albert Smith

Effort

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. 

Beginning makes the conditions perfect.  - Alan Cohen

Gratitude

Live with the spirit of Thanksgiving & you will find greater happiness in life.  

- Thomas S. Monson

Life

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain. 

Friends

Choose friends the way you choose your clothes – 

in both cases choose that which improves you and would give you 

confidence standing in the presence of God. Good friends 

would never embarrass you or exploit you. Neither should your clothing.

- Jeffrey R. Holland

Service

All that is really worth doing is what we do for others.  - Lewis Carroll

Heroes

We do not have to become heroes overnight.  Just one step at a time, meeting  

each thing that comes up . . . discovering we have the strength to stare it down. 

- Eleanor Roosevelt.

Holy Ghost

The Lord's Spirit gives us strength to do more than we could ever do on our own. 

- Rob Richards