Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people who shared the experience of learning. Henry B. Eyring More Quotes by Henry B. Eyring More Quotes From Henry B. Eyring Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. Henry B. Eyring motivational love life As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow. Henry B. Eyring praying feelings children The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love. Henry B. Eyring covenant power love It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. 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. Henry B. Eyring foundation forgiving too-late We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. The combination of trials and their duration are as varied as are the children of our Heavenly Father. No two are alike. But what is being tested is the same, at all times in our lives and for every person: will we do whatsoever the Lord our God will command us? Henry B. Eyring adversity father children If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance. Henry B. Eyring remembrance kindness exercise You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness. Henry B. Eyring light choices moving Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine. Henry B. Eyring fading trials wish Heavenly Father and the Savior are grateful that you do your part. They know you, They watch over you, and They love you. Henry B. Eyring grateful love-you father The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun. Henry B. Eyring failing enough path For us to know that the Book of Mormon is true, we must read it and make the choice found in Moroni: pray to know if it is true. When we have done that, we can testify from personal experience to our friends that they can make that choice and know the same truth. Henry B. Eyring choices done book You can test what we have talked about today. Just try two things. Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit and then commit to obey. . . . God will take advantage of that if you let Him Henry B. Eyring listening trying two If you reflect often on how His Atonement has changed you, and if you give thanks often, you will find that your witness of Him gains power to touch the hearts of others. When those you invite out of your own testimony feel that witness, they will come to accept Him as their Lord and Savior. Henry B. Eyring gains heart giving God offers us counsel not just for our own safety but for the safety of His other children, whom we should love. There are few comforts so sweet as to know that we have been an instrument in the hands of God in leading someone else to safety. That blessing generally requires the faith to follow counsel when it is hard to do. Henry B. Eyring blessing sweet children If we choose the right, we will find happiness-in time. If we choose evil, there comes sorrow and regret-in time. Those effects are sure. Yet they are often delayed for a purpose. If the blessings were immediate, choosing the right would not build faith. And since sorrow is also sometimes greatly delayed, it takes faith to feel the need to seek forgiveness for sin early rather than after we feel its sorrowful and painful effects. Henry B. Eyring regret blessing evil When tragedy strikes, or even when it looms, our families will have the opportunity to look into our hearts to see whether we know what we said we knew. Our children will watch, feel the Spirit confirm that we lived as we preached, remember that confirmation, and pass the story across the generations. Henry B. Eyring heart opportunity children The children of God have more in common then they have differences. Henry B. Eyring differences common children The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves. Henry B. Eyring children people enemy The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son. Henry B. Eyring father world son As we do what He would have us do for His children, the Lord considers it kindness to Him, and we will feel closer to Him as we feel His love and His approval. In time, we will become like Him, and will think of the judgement day with happy anticipation. Henry B. Eyring kindness children thinking
