One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency is our power to choose, and addiction is what happens when we have lost that power and we are controlled by something else. John Bytheway More Quotes by John Bytheway More Quotes From John Bytheway It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. John Bytheway yearbook lasts forever Some people will dream big dreams while others will wake up and do them. John Bytheway moving-on dream people If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind. John Bytheway morning love school The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs? John Bytheway average watches television Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness. John Bytheway faithful stronger doe If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters! John Bytheway communication clever book Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails. John Bytheway choices-you-make failing choices What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ! John Bytheway strong temptation jesus I suppose that one of the greatest benefits of studying Isaiah is the process of studying Isaiah. Searching the scriptures puts you in a pondering, searching frame of mind in which inspiration can come, allowing you to find ways to apply scriptural truths to your life. John Bytheway scripture inspiration mind If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you. John Bytheway groups nice people Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life. John Bytheway earth-life progress adversity The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action. John Bytheway afar taught action We're not thinking straight if we say we want to be like Jesus but we don't want to go through anything Jesus went through! John Bytheway want jesus thinking The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?) John Bytheway mermaid twenties thinking Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard. John Bytheway inches yards hard We don’t LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are John Bytheway models grandma looks And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did! John Bytheway ishmael wife daughter If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this? John Bytheway adversity strong doe The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry. John Bytheway play worry country Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty. John Bytheway goodnight honesty good-night
