LIVING POEMS

"Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said;

for ye are living poems, 

and all the rest are dead."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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BE A GOOD ONE

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

ANGEL MOTHER

"All that I am, or hope to be,

I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

MOVING MOUNTAINS

"Men can move mountains with their words"

- Winston Churchill

Indeed. The Brother of Jared said to the Mount of Zerin: "Remove - and it was removed" (Ether 12:30). And so great was the faith of Enoch, the great-great grandfather of Noah, that when he spoke the word of God "the earth trembled and the mountains fled" (Moses 7:13). We might not need to change the geography of the world but we sometimes need to change the geography of our lives. Most of us have mountains in our lives that we have been climbing for years. There comes a time though when climbing needs to come to an end. Then perhaps the task at hand is no longer to climb but to move. Many of us lack such faith and feel that climbing is easier than the faith that is required to move the obstacles in our path to greatness. These obstacles can be lack of faith in ourselves, weaknesses, addictions, lack of self-esteem, or simply the lure of the comfort zone. These mountains can be of immense proportions but none are bigger than the power that God can give us. Enoch was a man of 'slow speech' (Moses 6:31) until God gave him utterance (Moses 6:34). The Brother of Jared was a praying man who had the audacity to believe. Both were just ordinary men made powerful by God. So stop climbing and speak the words: Through my faith in Jesus Christ - move.

- Cathryne Allen

HOPE ACHIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE

"Hope sees the invisible; feels the intangible;

achieves the impossible."

-Anonymous

STRONGEST SOULS

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;

the most massive characters are seared with scars."

-Kahlil Gibran

LIFE

"Life can only be understood backwards;

but it must be lived forwards."

- Soren Kierkegaard