JOY

"He wept - He who had descended below all things,

the Man of Sorrows, He who bore all our griefs.

The heights of His infinite capacity for joy is the inverse,

mirror image of the depth of His capacity to bear our burdens."

- Bruce C. Hafen

A HOME WITHOUT BOOKS

 "A home without books is a body

without soul."

-  Marcus Tullius Cicero

Roman Philosopher

(106 BC - 43 BC)

IN ANGELS' KEEPING

"Now this is the truth. We humble people; we who feel ourselves sometimes so worthless, so good-for-nothing; we are not so worthless as we think. There is not one of us but what God's love has been expended upon. There is not one of us that He has not cared for and caressed. There is not one of us that He has not desired to save, and that He has not devised means to save. There is not one of us that he has not given His angels charge concerning. We may be insignificant and contemptible in our own eyes, and in the eyes of others, but the truth remains that we the children of God, and that He has actually given His angels -invisible beings of power and might - charge concerning us, and they watch over us and have us in their keeping...."

- George Q. Cannon, Nov 1890, "Collected Discourses Vol 2"

LIFE

 

"Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. 

Each of us has the power to give life meaning,

to make our time and our bodies and our words

into instruments of love and hope."

- Tom Head

I DIM

"I dim,

I dim -

I have no doubt

If someone blew -

I would go out.

I did not,

I must be brighter

Than I thought.

- Carol Lynn Pearson

UPON OUR SHOULDERS

"The nearer we get to our Heavenly Father, 

the more we are disposed to look with compassion on perishing souls;

 we feel that we want to take them upon our shoulders, 

and cast their sins behind our backs."

- Joseph Smith

THE PURE LOVE OF CHRIST

"The pure love of Christ is the highest

pinnacle the human soul can reach

and the deepest expression of the 

human heart."

- Howard W. Hunter