Love...

Photo: Lydia Stewart

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”

-Thomas S. Monson

“They do not love,

that do not show their love.”

-William Shakespeare

The Pursuit of Holiness and Happiness...

Photo: Lydia Stewart

"The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets. The more we rely on the Savior’s grace, the more we will feel that we are on the track our Father in Heaven has intended for us."

—Dieter F. Uchtdorf

A Parent's Promise...

 

Enlisted to Serve God at Baptism...

Photo: Douglas Stewart

The Prophet Joseph pointed out that before your baptism, you could be on neutral ground between good and evil. But “when you joined this Church you enlisted to serve God. When you did that you left the neutral ground, and you never can [go] back.” His counsel was that we must never forsake the Master.
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At baptism we promise to take upon us “the name of [Jesus] Christ, having [the] determination to serve him to the end.” Such a covenant requires courageous effort, commitment, and integrity if we are to continue to sing the song of redeeming love and stay truly converted.

-Elder Quintin L. Cook

Be an Active Priesthood Holder...

Photo: Lydia Stewart

“It is not enough to receive the priesthood and then sit back passively and wait until someone prods us into activity. When we receive the priesthood, we have the obligation of becoming actively and anxiously engaged in promoting the cause of righteousness in the earth, because the Lord says:
“‘… He that doeth not anything until he is commanded, and receiveth a commandment with doubtful heart, and keepeth it with slothfulness, the same is damned’ [D&C 58:29]” (So Shall Ye Reap [1960], 21).
-President Ezra Taft Benson

“One breaks the priesthood covenant by transgressing commandments—but also by leaving undone his duties. Accordingly, to break this covenant one needs only to do nothing” (The Miracle ofForgiveness [1969], 96).
-President Spencer W. Kimball

Your Own Education…

Everyone is responsible for his own education. You can’t teach anyone who doesn’t want to learn, and you can’t stop anyone who does.

-Polly Horvath, “Northward to the Moon”

Integrity...

Integrity is not naiveté. What is naive is to suppose that we are not accountable to God.

-D. Todd Christofferson

The Seeds of Destiny

Photo: Ben Romney, Europe

"...But Farmer Hoggett knew that little ideas that tickled and nagged and refused to go away... should never be ignored... for in them lie the seeds of destiny."

Babe, the movie

Don't Procrastinate

Where's the good in putting things off? Strike while the iron is hot.
-Charles Dickens

Planning Ahead...

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life… But where no plan is laid… chaos will soon reign.
-Victor Hugo

Facing the Future

Photo: Ben Romney, Europe

“I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.”
-Ronald Reagan

Becoming Better

Photo: Benjamin Romney, Europe

As disciples of the Savior, we are not merely striving to know more; rather, we need to consistently do more of what we know is right and become better.
-Elder David A. Bednar