“Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. President David O. McKay stated that being parents is “the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.”

James E. Faust | The Greatest Challenge in the World—Good Parenting

Topics: Family, Fathers & Fatherhood, Mothers & Motherhood, Parenting

“The object of our prayers should not be to present a wish list or a series of requests but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is eager to bestow, according to His will and timing. Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.”

Elder David A. Bednar | “Ask in Faith,” Ensign, May 2008, p. 97

Topics: Blessings, Prayer

“Because it is broken and torn, each piece of bread is unique, just as the individuals who partake of it are unique. We all have different sins to repent of. We all have different needs to be strengthened through the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we remember in this ordinance. Strive to think of His sacrifice as specific and unique to you.”

Elder Dallin H. Oaks

Topics: Atonement, Sacrament

“If we fail to forgive ourselves when God has done so, we make ourselves a higher judge than Him.”

CS Lewis | "Mere Christianity"

Topics: Forgiveness, Nature of God, Repentance, Sin

“When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from among our kindred, friends, and fellow-beings and fellow-servants. The ancient prophets who died were those who came to visit their fellow creatures upon the earth. They came to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; … such beings … waited upon the Savior and administered to him on the Mount. … Our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and friends who have passed away from this earth, having been faithful, and worthy to enjoy these rights and privileges, may have a mission given them to visit their relatives and friends upon the earth again, bringing from the divine Presence messages of love, of warning, or reproof and instruction, to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh.”

Joseph Fielding Smith | (Gospel Doctrine, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1970, pages 435–36.)

Topics: Angels, Family, Friendship

“When you reach up for the Lord’s power in your life with the same intensity that a drowning person has when grasping and gasping for air, power from Jesus Christ will be yours. When the Savior knows you truly want to reach up to Him–when He can feel that the greatest desire of your heart is to draw His power into your life–you will be led by the Holy Ghost to know exactly what you should do. When you spiritually stretch beyond anything you have ever done before, then His power will flow into you.”

Russell M. Nelson | "Drawing the Power of Jesus Christ into Our Lives"

Topics: Diligence, Holy Ghost, Priesthood

Now it is time for you to define your own goals and meet your own expectations. From now on, you decide! Instead of concentrating on what you are to do, now is the time to zero in on who you are to be…

Russell M. Nelson | Disciples of Jesus Christ—Defenders of Marriage

Topics: Goals, Growth, Inspirational Quotes, Potential

“Our task is to become our best selves. One of God’s greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.”

Thomas S. Monson | "The Will Within"

Topics: Failure, Hope, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Perfection, Trials

“Because God has been faithful and kept his promises in the past, we can hope with confidence that God will keep His promises to us in the present and in the future.”

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Topics: Covenants, Hope, Patriarchal Blessings

“A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.”

Joseph Smith

Topics: Being Called & Callings, Leadership, Missionary Work & Preparation, Sacrifice, Service

“You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness. If there is one lament I cannot abide, it is the poor, withered cry, ‘Well, that’s just the way that I am.’ I’ve heard it from too many people who want to sin and call it psychology. You can change anything you want to change, and you can do it very fast. Another satanic sucker punch is that it takes years and years and eons and eons to repent. That’s just not true. It takes exactly as long to repent as it takes you to say, ‘Ill change’ and mean it. Of course, there will be problems to work out and restitutions to make…but change, growth, renewal , and repentance can come to you as instantaneously as for Alma.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | For Times of Trouble

Topics: Change, Forgiveness, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Repentance

“People do not join the Church because of what they know. They join because of what they feel, what they see and want spiritually. Our spirit of testimony and happiness in that regard will come through to others if we let it. As the Lord said to Alma and the sons of Mosiah, ‘Go forth…that ye may show forth good examples unto them in me, and I will make an instrument of thee in my hands unto the salvation of many souls’ (Alma 17:11).”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | "Broken Thing to Mend"

Topics: Example, Missionary Work & Preparation

“The crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | (2012, November). The first great commandment. Ensign, 42(11), 83–85.

Topics: Divorce, Love

“Gratitude is of the very essence of worship. … When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit and egotism, you walk with a spirit of thanksgiving that is becoming to you and will bless your lives.”

Gordon B. Hinckley | "Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley" (1997), 250

Topics: Gratitude & Thanksgiving, Worship

“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.”

Gordon B. Hinckley | Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

Topics: Missionary Work & Preparation, Service, Work

“Knowing, then, that marriage and family come first, what should we think about education and careers? Remember—the issue is not marriage or education; the issue is marriage and education. . . It has been said that before becoming somebody’s wife, before becoming somebody’s mother, become somebody.”

Marie Hafen | “Celebrating Womanhood”

Topics: Education, Family, Marriage, Women

“Instead of explaining our suffering, God shares it.”

Nicholas Wolterstroff

Topics: Adversity, Atonement, Nature of God, Trials

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

Bryan Stevenson | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Topics: Atonement, Perfection, Potential, Repentance

“Life offers you two precious gifts. One is time, the other, freedom of choice—the freedom to buy with your time what you will. You are free to exchange your allotment of time for thrills. You may trade it for base desires. You may invest it in greed. You may purchase with it vanity; you may spend your time in pursuit of material things. Yours is the freedom to choose. But these are not bargains, for in them you find no lasting satisfaction.”

Richard L. Evans

Topics: Agency, Decisions, Secularism (Worldliness), Time

“When we see shepherds, may we remember to be humble. When we see wise men, may we remember to be generous. When we see the star, may we remember the Light of Christ, which gives life and light to all things. When we see a tiny baby, may we remember to love unconditionally, with tenderness and compassion.”

Bonnie L. Oscarson | "Christmas is Christlike Love"

Topics: Christmas, Light of Christ, Love

As you use your agency to carve out time every day to draw close to God’s voice, especially in the Book of Mormon, over time His voice will become clearer and more familiar to you.

Michelle Craig | Spiritual Capacity

Topics: General Conference 2019, Scripture Study

At some point, God will ask you to sacrifice on his altar, not only your stories about your own life, but your version of his stories as well. Your softly lit watercolor felt-board version of scripture stories and church history must, like all your stories, be abandoned at his feet, and the messy, vibrant, and inconvenient truths that characterize God’s real work with real people will have to take center stage. If they don’t, then how will God’s work in your hungry messy, and inconvenient life ever do the same? When God knocks, don’t creep to the door and look through the peephole to see if he looks like you thought he would. Rush to the door and throw it open.

Adam S. Miller | Letters to a Young Mormon By Adam Miller

Topics: Becoming like God, Nature of God, Sacrifice, Truth

I haven’t met anyone who found the gospel later in life who didn’t wish it could have been earlier.

Elder D. Todd Christofferson | The Joy of the Saints

Topics: Conversion, General Conference 2019, Missionary Work & Preparation

“Suffering is universal; how we react to suffering is individual. Suffering can take us one of two ways. It can be a strengthening and purifying experience combined with faith, or it can be a destructive force in our lives if we do not have the faith in the Lord’s atoning sacrifice. The purpose of suffering, however, is to build and strengthen us. We learn obedience by the things we suffer.”

Elder Robert D. Hales | “Your Sorrow Shall Be Turned to Joy,” Ensign, Nov. 1983, 66.

Topics: Grief, Obedience, Opposition in All Things, Trials, Why Bad Things Happen to Good People