Browsing Quotes With Tag: choice (72)
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Indecision mars all success: there can be no good wind for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
Speaker: Oliver Wendell HolmesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can only solve one problem at a time. It’s a law.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you want to be offended, you will be. But, if you are offended, it’s because you want to be.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Trees that can withstand the hurricane sometimes yield to destroying pests that can scarcely be seen except with the aid of a microscope. Likewise, the greatest foes of the individual are not always the glaring evils of humanity but subtle influences of thought and of continual association with companions.
Speaker: David O. McKayPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our ills are usually of our own begetting.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Agency is the freedom to choose what consequences we are willing to live with.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Once you make up your mind to be obedient, obedience will become easier.
Speaker: Fratele RaduPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is very important that we do not assume the perspective of morality in making decisions that bear on eternity.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God’s commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.
Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In every age we are faced with a choice. We can trust in our own strength, or we can journey to higher ground and come unto Christ.
Each choice has a consequence.
Each consequence, a destination.Speaker: Joseph B. WirthlinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The natural consequence that comes to those who depart from the way of the Lord is that they are left in their own strength. While in the heat of our success we might assume that our own strength is sufficient, those who rely upon the arm of the flesh soon discover how weak and unreliable it truly is.
Speaker: Joseph B. WirthlinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Make every decision you contemplate pass this test: what does it do to me? What does it do for me?
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To do well does not mean everything will always turn out well.
Speaker: David E. SorensenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The choice between good and evil is at the very heart of our experience on earth. In the final review of our lives, it will not really matter if we were rich or poor, if we were athletic or not, if we had friends or were often forgotten.
We can work, study, laugh and have fun, dance, singe and enjoy many different experiences. These are a wonderful part of life, but they are not central to why we are here. The opportunity to choose good over evil is precisely why we are here.Speaker: Neil L. AndersenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:12 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One reason the Lord illustrates doctrines with the most extreme circumstances is to eliminate excuses. If the Lord expects even the poorest widow to pay her mite, where does that leave all others who find that it is not convenient or easy to sacrifice?
Speaker: Lynn G. RobbinsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.
Speaker: Dalin H, OaksPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don’t wait too long to find the alter or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A course of life that is wrong now cannot and will not be proven right later on.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Without a strong commitment to the Lord, an individual is more prone to have a low level of commitment to a spouse. Weak commitments to eternal covenants lead to losses of eternal consequence.
If Satan can get you to love anything – fun, flirtation, fame, or fortune – more than a spouse or the Lord with whom you have made sacred covenants to endure, the adversary begins to triumph.Speaker: Russell M. NelsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never make someone choose between your ways and the Lord’s ways… Make sure that you’re making it easier to live God’s commandments for those who are by your side and who are your friends. Then you will understand whether you have charity.
Speaker: Robert D. HalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!