"One would truly need a great and spacious makeup kit to compete with beauty as portrayed in media all around us. Yet at the end of the day there would still be those "in attitude of mocking and pointing their fingers" as Lehi ( 1 Nephi 8:27) saw because however much one tries in the world of glamour and fashion, it will never be glamorous enough"
"There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the path that Christ walks. When He says, "COME, FOLLOW ME" (Luke 18:22), He means that He knows where the quicksand is and where the thorns are and the best way to handle the slippery slope near the summit of our personal mountains. He knows it all, and He knows the way. HE IS THE WAY"
"Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past."
"Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can, for He is the very source of the light you seek. He does love you, and He knows your fears. He hears your prayers. He is your Heavenly Father, and surely He matches with His own the tears his children shed."
" We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others"
"If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort. if your are discouraged, please know you can find hope, if you are poor in spirit, please know you can be strengthened, if you feel you are broken, please know you can be mended."
"On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distances from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and dreary places. Often enough that distress can be out of our own making, but eben then the Father of us all is watching and assisting. And always there are those angels who come and go all around us, seen and unseen, known and unknown, mortal and immortal."
"I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech or as wealthy as we would like, but in a world of varied talents and fortunes that we can't always command, I think that makes even more attractive the qualities we can command--such qualities as thoughtfulness, patience, a kind word, and true delight in the accomplishment of another. These cost us nothing, and they can mean everything to the one who receives them."
"We must be willing to place all that we have-- not just our possessions (they may be the easiest things of all to give up), but also our ambition and pride and stubbornness and vanity--we must place it all on the altar of God, kneel there in silent submission, and willingly walk away."
"No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse"
"God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, He expects you not simply to face the future (that sounds pretty grim and stoic); He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it ans delight in your opportunities."
"When Christ comes, the members of His Church must look and act like members of His Church are supposed to look and act if we are to be acceptable to Him. we must be doing His work and we must be living His teachings He must recognize us quickly and easily as truly being his disciples."
That's all :) the whole book is full of good stuff but those are the ones that made me think :) and I liked them the most!!
P.S. today was my LAST day at TLC bye bye!!! :) I'll miss the kids but I won't miss anything else about it. :)
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