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An Eye Single: Thoughts and Teachings from Patricia T. Holland
184 pages, Hardcover
Published March 31, 2025
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December 22, 2025
There is so much to admire in Patricia T. Holland. I enjoy her talks, her openness, her grace. This books brings together many quotes from her talks and one of her books. I discovered that many of the quotes I had marked to remember, came from the one complete talk the book provides, A Future Filled With Hope, given at the World-wide devotional in January 2023. She passed away in July 2023.
p. 27 What can I do for the Kingdom?
p. 27 What can I do for the Kingdom?
February 15, 2026
Such an abundant source of wisdom, knowledge and perspective!
August 7, 2026
There is so much to love about Sister Holland. Like her husband, she was a great orator. She had Christlike poise and grace. I love her perspective especially on motherhood and simplicity. I highlighted so many quotes but here are few of my current favorites:
“Covenants forge a link between our telestial, mortal struggles and God’s celestial, immortal powers.”
“For many years I tried to measure the ofttimes quiet, reflective, thoughtful Pat Holland against the robust, bubbly, talkative, and energetic Jeff Holland and others with like qualities. I have learned through several fatiguing failures that you can’t have joy in being bubbly if you are not a bubbly person. It is a contradiction in terms. I have given up seeing myself as a flawed person because my energy level is lower than Jeff’s, and I don’t talk as much as he does, nor as fast. Giving this up has freed me to embrace and rejoice in my own manner and personality in the measure of my creation. Ironically, that has allowed me to admire and enjoy Jeff’s ebullience even more.”
“Miraculously, I have found that I have untold abundant sources of energy to be myself. But the moment I indulge in imitation of my neighbor, I feel fractured and fatigued and find myself forever swimming upstream.”
“I’ve often wondered of the struggles that may have plagued the mind of Moses when the Lord asked him to leave his royal privileges and position in order to serve Him in abject poverty and meagerness. Contrast his mission with the Lord’s design for Joseph to stay in Egypt, to use his power and prestige for righteous purposes. Apparently, Jeremiah was never given the blessings of marriage or children, while Jacob had the comfort and companionship of four righteous women and many children. Joshua seems to have been an incredibly confident, charismatic, take-charge kind of leader, while Moses was often reluctant, tentative, and sometimes had to ask the Lord twice for directions. Each had a crucial—but very different—role to play. Furthermore, age seems to make little difference in the diversity of this tapestry. David was a mere child when he deftly dispatched Goliath, but Abraham was eighty years old when he gave us the supreme mortal example of faith and obedience. Esther had the wealth and attention of kings, giving her the opportunity to help save a nation, while Ruth was a poor, unaccepted Moabite but whose royal blood, ironically, carried the lineage of the Son of God Himself. The Lord uses us because of our unique personalities and differences rather than in spite of them. He needs all of us, with all our blemishes and weaknesses and limitations.”
“We are . . . disciples [of Jesus Christ]. He accepts us as we are, even as we are growing toward what we must become. Rest in that love. Bathe and luxuriate in it. Let it relax, calm, and comfort you.”
“If I may pursue the path I most long for and the one I hope to savor through eternity, I choose home and mothering and womanhood, now and forever.”
“All I have ever really wanted to be is a mother. I was thrust into the public eye during our years at BYU, and I fulfilled those public assignments. It was my duty and they were wonderful years. Even now as the wife of a General Authority, my life is more public than I prefer. But my husband’s calling is an unequaled and profound privilege for our family. We have never been more blessed in our lives. But all I have ever wanted to be is a mother. . . . My happiest thoughts and my highest hopes are to someday, somewhere on some small green and grassy piece of God’s celestial realm, sit with my children and grandchildren, crowded around me for as far as the eye can see, and tell them of the love I feel and speak of eternal things. I long for that sense of family and home, and it is the most motivating force in my life. I wanted it in our early married life, I want it now, and I want it in the world to come.”
““Alma labored much in the spirit, wrestling with God in mighty prayer, that he would pour out his spirit upon the people” (Alma 8:10). We must do at least as much to call down the spirit into our homes and into the lives of our children. Indeed, this very son, Alma, is the living example of a child who was not only brought to repentance of his former sins but was raised up to become one of the Book of Mormon’s greatest prophets. All of this was done by the faith and prayers of a righteous father.”
“Our hearts will always be restless until they rest in God.”
“We all talk to ourselves, don’t we? Then why don’t we improve the quality of the conversation? I am constantly saying, “I wonder if my alarm will go off? Will Duffy get the teachers he wants this year in school? Yes, I know I should start exercising. I do hope the Lord will forgive me for eating mocha flavored ice cream.” If that kind of thinking is simply a conversation with ourselves—and it is—why not turn it just a bit more into a conversation with God? To do so, in essence, is to fulfill the scriptural injunction to pray continually.”
“Furthermore, I know—and love knowing—that my ultimate role and mission will always include the particular joys of providing loving and wise support to others as they fulfill their own assignments.”
“I think deeply of what helped me most in the rearing of my children. It was often just the simple offhand comments other sisters made in Relief Society. I shudder to think how my children may have turned out without the help of my sisters.”
“As I look back at my life, and if I could live any part of it over again, I would do one thing differently—very differently: Simplify! It seems to me that everything is better when it is simplified—our food, our clothing, our furnishings, and our schedules.”
“Someone once said: “The reason people do not join with you Christians is because you wear your religion like a headache, like a crown of thorns.” There is only one person who has had to bear that crown of thorns, and He did it so that we might live joyfully, abundantly, and peacefully—not despairingly. The gospel was never meant to be a mountain that little girl could not climb. He wanted her—and everyone else in the world—to always be filled with hope. He wants us to know that the gospel is beautifully simple and simply beautiful.”
“[In the temple] we will find peace and serenity and stillness that will anchor our soul forever, for there we will find God.”
“Covenants forge a link between our telestial, mortal struggles and God’s celestial, immortal powers.”
“For many years I tried to measure the ofttimes quiet, reflective, thoughtful Pat Holland against the robust, bubbly, talkative, and energetic Jeff Holland and others with like qualities. I have learned through several fatiguing failures that you can’t have joy in being bubbly if you are not a bubbly person. It is a contradiction in terms. I have given up seeing myself as a flawed person because my energy level is lower than Jeff’s, and I don’t talk as much as he does, nor as fast. Giving this up has freed me to embrace and rejoice in my own manner and personality in the measure of my creation. Ironically, that has allowed me to admire and enjoy Jeff’s ebullience even more.”
“Miraculously, I have found that I have untold abundant sources of energy to be myself. But the moment I indulge in imitation of my neighbor, I feel fractured and fatigued and find myself forever swimming upstream.”
“I’ve often wondered of the struggles that may have plagued the mind of Moses when the Lord asked him to leave his royal privileges and position in order to serve Him in abject poverty and meagerness. Contrast his mission with the Lord’s design for Joseph to stay in Egypt, to use his power and prestige for righteous purposes. Apparently, Jeremiah was never given the blessings of marriage or children, while Jacob had the comfort and companionship of four righteous women and many children. Joshua seems to have been an incredibly confident, charismatic, take-charge kind of leader, while Moses was often reluctant, tentative, and sometimes had to ask the Lord twice for directions. Each had a crucial—but very different—role to play. Furthermore, age seems to make little difference in the diversity of this tapestry. David was a mere child when he deftly dispatched Goliath, but Abraham was eighty years old when he gave us the supreme mortal example of faith and obedience. Esther had the wealth and attention of kings, giving her the opportunity to help save a nation, while Ruth was a poor, unaccepted Moabite but whose royal blood, ironically, carried the lineage of the Son of God Himself. The Lord uses us because of our unique personalities and differences rather than in spite of them. He needs all of us, with all our blemishes and weaknesses and limitations.”
“We are . . . disciples [of Jesus Christ]. He accepts us as we are, even as we are growing toward what we must become. Rest in that love. Bathe and luxuriate in it. Let it relax, calm, and comfort you.”
“If I may pursue the path I most long for and the one I hope to savor through eternity, I choose home and mothering and womanhood, now and forever.”
“All I have ever really wanted to be is a mother. I was thrust into the public eye during our years at BYU, and I fulfilled those public assignments. It was my duty and they were wonderful years. Even now as the wife of a General Authority, my life is more public than I prefer. But my husband’s calling is an unequaled and profound privilege for our family. We have never been more blessed in our lives. But all I have ever wanted to be is a mother. . . . My happiest thoughts and my highest hopes are to someday, somewhere on some small green and grassy piece of God’s celestial realm, sit with my children and grandchildren, crowded around me for as far as the eye can see, and tell them of the love I feel and speak of eternal things. I long for that sense of family and home, and it is the most motivating force in my life. I wanted it in our early married life, I want it now, and I want it in the world to come.”
““Alma labored much in the spirit, wrestling with God in mighty prayer, that he would pour out his spirit upon the people” (Alma 8:10). We must do at least as much to call down the spirit into our homes and into the lives of our children. Indeed, this very son, Alma, is the living example of a child who was not only brought to repentance of his former sins but was raised up to become one of the Book of Mormon’s greatest prophets. All of this was done by the faith and prayers of a righteous father.”
“Our hearts will always be restless until they rest in God.”
“We all talk to ourselves, don’t we? Then why don’t we improve the quality of the conversation? I am constantly saying, “I wonder if my alarm will go off? Will Duffy get the teachers he wants this year in school? Yes, I know I should start exercising. I do hope the Lord will forgive me for eating mocha flavored ice cream.” If that kind of thinking is simply a conversation with ourselves—and it is—why not turn it just a bit more into a conversation with God? To do so, in essence, is to fulfill the scriptural injunction to pray continually.”
“Furthermore, I know—and love knowing—that my ultimate role and mission will always include the particular joys of providing loving and wise support to others as they fulfill their own assignments.”
“I think deeply of what helped me most in the rearing of my children. It was often just the simple offhand comments other sisters made in Relief Society. I shudder to think how my children may have turned out without the help of my sisters.”
“As I look back at my life, and if I could live any part of it over again, I would do one thing differently—very differently: Simplify! It seems to me that everything is better when it is simplified—our food, our clothing, our furnishings, and our schedules.”
“Someone once said: “The reason people do not join with you Christians is because you wear your religion like a headache, like a crown of thorns.” There is only one person who has had to bear that crown of thorns, and He did it so that we might live joyfully, abundantly, and peacefully—not despairingly. The gospel was never meant to be a mountain that little girl could not climb. He wanted her—and everyone else in the world—to always be filled with hope. He wants us to know that the gospel is beautifully simple and simply beautiful.”
“[In the temple] we will find peace and serenity and stillness that will anchor our soul forever, for there we will find God.”
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January 2, 2026Quotes:
"FAITH is the conviction that there is a God, HOPE is trusting He will help us, and CHARITY is His love and ability working through us to bless others.
I have learned regarding charity that none of us have energy, time, rsources, or strength to do all that our hearts would like us to do. We can't do it all; our hearts do exceed our capacity. How wonderful it is that God's power moving through us can enlarge our modest impact, can multiply our limited efforts, and do for others that which we could never do alone."
(p. 155)
Worldwide Devotional for YA Broadcast from St. George, UT
"FAITH is the conviction that there is a God, HOPE is trusting He will help us, and CHARITY is His love and ability working through us to bless others.
I have learned regarding charity that none of us have energy, time, rsources, or strength to do all that our hearts would like us to do. We can't do it all; our hearts do exceed our capacity. How wonderful it is that God's power moving through us can enlarge our modest impact, can multiply our limited efforts, and do for others that which we could never do alone."
(p. 155)
Worldwide Devotional for YA Broadcast from St. George, UT
November 25, 2025
This is a beautiful book, put together by Patricia Holland's daughter. I highlighted so many things to look back on. It is a compilation of quotes from Sister Holland throughout many years of giving talks. Her husband, Jeffrey R. Holland, served as the President of BYU, and then was later called as an apostle. She had many opportunities to speak publicly because of this. Her last full address was included at the end of the book, given about six months before she passed away. The book covers many topics - women, temples, motherhood, priesthood, prayer, etc.
May 13, 2025
Love the way she put her thoughts together. Beautifully organized by her daughter. So glad she included all of her final address.
July 3, 2025
I love this and will refer to it often. It covers a variety of topics and is so uplifting.
July 17, 2025
So many wonderful words spoken by a daughter of God. So many quotes that I will remember.
May 2, 2026
Very nice thoughts from a righteous woman.
May 19, 2026
Libby. Delightful book. Quotes from Patricia Holland
May 31, 2026
I have always admired Sister Holland. Reading her thoughts from many talks given over the years made me love and admire her more!
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