The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him. Henry B. Eyring More Quotes by Henry B. Eyring More Quotes From Henry B. Eyring Our Heavenly Father hears the prayers of His children across the earth pleading for food to eat, for clothes to cover their bodies, and for the dignity that would come from being able to provide for themselves. Those pleas have reached Him since He placed men and women on the earth. But always the Lord’s way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work. Henry B. Eyring prayer father children The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live. Henry B. Eyring messages long jesus The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow. Henry B. Eyring form sorrow way We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young. Henry B. Eyring mother children jesus That solid basis for a foundation of faith is personal integrity. Henry B. Eyring personal-integrity foundation integrity God asks that we give thanks to Him for whatever blessings we receive from Him. It is easy for us to become mechanical in our prayers of gratitude, often repeating the same words but without the intent to give our thanks as a gift of the heart to God. Henry B. Eyring gratitude prayer heart The Lord will give His righteous servants opportunities to be bold as lions when they speak in His name and as witnesses in His priesthood. Henry B. Eyring names opportunity giving God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God. Henry B. Eyring purpose temptation opportunity Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our descendants from this life. It is also to have eternal increase. Henry B. Eyring inheritance forever children If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire … to do your best, … such a young woman is worthy of your love Henry B. Eyring girl young desire We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose. Henry B. Eyring moral agency influence The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come. Henry B. Eyring cleansing agents kingdoms When you choose whether to make or keep a covenant with God, you choose whether you will leave an inheritance of hope to those who might follow your example. Henry B. Eyring covenant-with-god inheritance example The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need. Henry B. Eyring responsibility father children Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers. Henry B. Eyring faithful temptation blessing I have learned over the years that the strength in a quorum doesn't come from the number of priesthood holders in it. Nor does it come automatically from the age and maturity of the members. Rather, the strength of a quorum comes in large measure from how completely its members are united in righteousness. That unity in a strong quorum of the priesthood is not like anything I have experienced in an athletic team or club or any other organization in the world. Henry B. Eyring maturity team strong Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble. Henry B. Eyring want father children The key to the remembering that brings and maintains testimony is receiving the Holy Ghost as a companion. It is the Holy Ghost who helps us see what God has done for us. It is the Holy Ghost who can help those we serve to see what God has done for them. Henry B. Eyring receiving keys done Now, I testify it is a small voice. It whispers, not shouts. And so you must be very quiet inside. That is why you may wisely fast when you want to listen. And that is why you will listen best when you feel, "Father, thy will, not mine, be done." You will have a feeling of "I want what you want." Then, the still small voice will seem as if it pierces you. It may make your bones to quake. More often it will make your heart burn within you, again softly, but with a burning which will lift and reassure. Henry B. Eyring voice heart father To keep ourselves grounded in the Lord's Church, we can and must train our eyes to recognize the power of the Lord in the service of those He has called. We must be worthy of the companionship of the Holy Ghost. And we need to pray for the Holy Ghost to help us know that men who lead us hold this power. Henry B. Eyring church eye men
