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This book was recommended by Elder Neil L. Andersen in the notes of his talk Spiritually Defining Memories.

Believe in the unseen Christ. And believe in the unseen Christ-like potential in others.

The supreme act of worship is keeping the commandments. -Joseph Fieldimg Smith

The more hesitation, the less inspiration. -Elder Maxell

Repentance takes care of the past, faith the future, and the Holy Ghost helps us with today.

Of a truth, those who can bend their knees in prayer do not feel they are stooping when they bend to help a neighbor in need.

The greatest compliment that can be earned here in this life is to be known as a covenant keeper.

A happy marriage is the union between two good forgivers.

I sought my God, but my God I could not see; I sought my soul , but my soul eluded me; I sought my brother, and I found all three.

"He who doesn't forgive, burns the very bridge he himself must cross."

"Perhaps the tilt to the telestial occurs because many feel less compromised when they are led carefully down the paved, gently descending, wide way, on which there is no exhilaration, whereas in climbing up the straight and narrow way, one seems to notice every chuckhole and all the loose gravel."

"It is as if the judge in that great courtroom in heaven, unwilling to ask anyone but himself to bear the burdens of the guilty people standing in the dock, takes off his judicial robes and comes down to earth to bear their stripes personally. Christ as merciful judge is as beautiful and wonderful a concept as that of Christ as counselor, mediator, and advocate."

"Our capacity to love and to endure well are bound together by patience."

"True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead."

"His prints are sunk inerasably deep into the soil of the second estate because of the heavy burdens He bore."

"So often in life, it seems, a blessing is quickly succeeded by a stretching."

"The knees of the mind bend so reluctantly. "

"Suspended judgement is the supreme form of charity."

"The appropriate approach is to study as if everything depended upon us and then to pray and exercise faith as if everything depended upon the Lord."

"Weary the Lord until He blesses you." -Joseph Smith

"The scriptures do not change, but we do, and so the old scriptures can give us new insights every time we read them."

"We are sent here on Earth to make choices. There are no choices more important than those choices that bare upon our salvation."

"Our challenge is not one of getting the Lord to speak to us. Our challenge is learning to hear what He has to say."

"It's not living the gospel that's hard. It's life that's hard."

"One of the great consolations of our mortality is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so."

"When spoken, words take on a life of their own, but thoughts can die quickly if we do not give them utterance."

"God knows what you need, He wants you to pray about what you need, and He wants you to work for it. But mostly He wants you to believe He can and will provide."