Life is fragile, handle with prayer. Harold B. Lee More Quotes by Harold B. Lee More Quotes From Harold B. Lee The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. Harold B. Lee wall important home The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today. Harold B. Lee difficulty important today You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul. Harold B. Lee higher-ground light fire If you are to be successful...you will need to be inspired. You will need to receive revelation. I will give you one piece of advice: Go to bed early and get up early. If you do, your body and mind will become rested and then in the quiet of those early morning hours, you will receive more flashes of inspiration and insight than at any other time of the day. Harold B. Lee inspiration successful morning Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight. Harold B. Lee spotlight humble dark 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 to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability. Harold B. Lee yesterday giving hands I bear you my witness that the Savior is closer to us than you have any idea. He will be close to you and the powers divine will be at your side when you have nowhere else to turn. Harold B. Lee your-side divine-will ideas The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential. Harold B. Lee waste life world Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you. Harold B. Lee depends doe happens A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it. . . . A friend is not a friend unless you defend him. Harold B. Lee holy-days words-of-wisdom believe You must learn to walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness; then the light will appear and show the way before you. Harold B. Lee light darkness way The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top. Harold B. Lee fruit thanksgiving long You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity. Harold B. Lee youth-of-today our-generation opportunity The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music. Harold B. Lee preaching music beautiful We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught. Harold B. Lee earth faces people Testimony is not something you have today, and you are going to have always. A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam. It is something you have to recapture every day of your life. Harold B. Lee moonbeams testimony today God grant that each of us here today may so live that all among us, and with us, may see, not us, but that which is divine and comes from God. With that vision of what those who have lost their way may become, my prayer is that they may receive strength and resolution to climb higher and higher and upward and onward to that great goal of eternal life and also that I may do my part in seeking to show by example, as well as by precept, that which will be the best of which I am capable of doing. Harold B. Lee vision goal prayer Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances. Harold B. Lee weakness church mean If it were not for the assurance that I have that the Lord is near to us, guiding, directing, the burden would be almost beyond my strength, but because I know that He is there, and that He can be appealed to, and if we have ears to hear attuned to Him, we will never be left alone. Harold B. Lee lord would-be ears Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered. Harold B. Lee indulge-in kindness mean
