“I testify that as you do your very best in the most difficult
of human challenges, heaven will smile upon you. Truly you are not alone. Let
the redemptive, loving power of Jesus Christ brighten your life now and
fill you with the hope of eternal promise. Take courage. Have faith and hope.
Consider the present with fortitude and look to the future with confidence.”--Elder
David S. Baxter (May 2012 Faith, Fortitude, Fulfillment:
A Message to Single Parents)
“Although you often feel
alone, in truth you are never totally on your own. As you move forward
in patience and in faith, Providence will move with you; heaven will bestow its
needful blessings.”
-Elder David S. Baxter (May
2012 Faith, Fortitude, Fulfillment: A Message to Single Parents)
“Be Kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way
to live.”
-- Jeffrey R. Holland (Conference April 2012 “The Laborers in the
Vineyard”)
“There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you can thank.
There is someone you can serve and lift.
You can do it wherever you are and however alone and deserted
you may feel.” President Henry B. Erying
“Mountains to Climb” Conf. April 2012
“I do not know who in this vast audience today may need to
hear the message of forgiveness inherent in this parable, but however late you
think you are, however many chances you think you have missed, however many
mistakes you feel you have made or talents you think you don’t have, or however
far from home and family and God you feel you have traveled, I testify that you
have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love. It is not possible for you
to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ’s Atonement shines…there is
nothing in either case that you have done that cannot be undone. There is no problem which you cannot
overcome. There is no dream that in the
unfolding of time and eternity cannot yet be realized. Even if you feel you are the lost and last
laborer of the eleventh hour, the Lord of the vineyard still stands
beckoning. ‘Come boldly [to] the throne
of grace,’ and fall at the feet of the Holy One of Israel. Come and feast ‘without money and without
price’ at the table of the Lord.” --Elder Jeffrey R. Holland (May 2012 “The
Laborers in the Vineyard”)
“I cannot
promise an end to your adversity in this life.
I cannot assure you that your trials will seem to you to be only but for
a moment. One of the characteristics of
trials in life is that they seem to make clocks slow down and then appear to
almost stop. There are reasons for
that. Knowing those reasons may not give
much comfort, but it can give you a feeling of patience. Those reasons come from this one fact: in
Their perfect love for you, Heavenly Father and the Savior wanted you fitted to
be with Them to live in families forever.
Only those washed perfectly clean through the Atonement of Jesus Christ
can be there.” –President Henry B. Erying
“Mountains to Climb” Conference April
2012
