Henry B. Eyring Quotes
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The Lord made it very clear at the start of this last dispensation that we were to take the gospel to all the world. ... Whatever our age, capacity, Church calling, or location, we are as one called to the work to help Him in His harvest of souls.
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We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still.
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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.
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There is joy guaranteed for the faithful.
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As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.
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The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.
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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.
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When we offer succor to anyone, the Savior feels it as if we reached out to succor Him.
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At this and every season, our Savior invites us to join with HIM and others to offer the priceless gift of JOY.
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We need not just one flash of light and comfort, but we need the continuing blessing of communication with God.
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Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.
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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.
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As you pray for forgiveness, you will find yourself forgiving others. As you thank God for His kindness, you will think of others, by name, who need your kindness. Again, that experience will surprise you every day, and over time it will change you.
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Parents should teach their children to pray. The child learns both from what the parents do and what they say. The child who sees a mother or a father pass through the trials of life with fervent prayer to God and then hears a sincere testimony that God answered in kindness will remember what he or she saw and heard. When trials come, that individual will be prepared.
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Your calling is to bless lives. . . . Just the way you smile or the way you offer to help someone can build their faith.
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Pride is the great enemy of unity
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(In your callings) you have access to more than your natural capacities, and you do not work alone. The Lord will magnify what you say and what you do in the eyes of the people you serve. He will send the Holy Ghost to manifest to them that what you spoke was true. What you say and do will carry hope and give direction to people far beyond your natural abilities and your own understanding.
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Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
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Satan will always work on the Saints of God to undermine their faith in priesthood keys. One way he does it is to point out the humanity of those who hold them. He can in that way weaken our testimony and so cut us loose from the line of keys by which the Lord ties us to Him and can take us and our families home to Him and to our Heavenly Father.
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Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.
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The pavilion that seems to be hiding you from God may be fear of man rather than this desire to serve others. The Savior's only motivation was to help people... I challenge you to go for the Lord to someone, despite any fear you may have, to extend love and forgiveness. I promise you that as you do, you will feel the love of the Savior for that person and His love for you, and it will not seem to come from a great distance.
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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.
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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
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It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.
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With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.
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The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.
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The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him.
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The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live.
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The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.
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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.
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