Mormon Musings

“The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact. Faith does not . . . spring from the miracle, but the miracle from faith. Fyodor Dostoevsky 

 "There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today.  There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow.  The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day is to take whatever comes into our hands and do it to the best of our ability."  Harold B. Lee

 "I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and prayerful heart, and to work, work, work."  Heber J. Grant

 “It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.” John Taylor

 "Life is a storm...you will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.  What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."  Alexandre Dumas

 I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.  Heber J. Grant

Sometimes we are tempted to let our lives be governed more by convenience than by covenant. It is not always convenient to live gospel standards and stand up for truth and testify of the Restoration. It usually is not convenient to share the gospel with others. It isn’t always convenient to respond to a calling in the Church, especially one that stretches our abilities. Opportunities to serve others in meaningful ways, as we have covenanted to do, rarely come at convenient times. But there is no spiritual power in living by convenience. The power comes as we keep our covenants. As we look at the lives of these early Saints, we see that their covenants were the primary force in their lives.  M. Russell Ballard, “ Like a Flame Unquenchable ,”  Ensign,  May 1999.