IQ: Inspirational Quotes


Words for the Soul...page 3


Do you think for a moment that Heavenly Father would have sent one of His children to the earth by accident, without the possibility of a significant work to perform?...You are preserved to come to the earth in this time for a special purpose. Not just a few of you, but all of you. There are things for each of you to do that no one else can do as well as you...
Elder H. Burke Peterson

Often you will not feel the Spirit even when you are trying very hard to be near the Lord. The Lord is letting you grow in making decisions based on your knowledge of righteous principles. He is also letting you prove to yourself that you will keep his commandments when you don't feel his nearness. If you always felt inspired, you as a son or daughter could not and would not really grow. Spiritual growth comes as you seek his inspiration, his closeness, and his peace. Even Jesus felt the absence of the Spirit at times. This is why he cried out 'My God, my god, why hast thou forsaken me? as he hung on the cross.
John D Whitten

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you never walk alone.
Author unknown

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing down to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw

Character is defined by what we are willing to do when the spotlight has been turned off, when the applause has died down, and no one is around to give us credit.
Author unknown

A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships were built for.
Anonymous

Adam was a gardener
And God who made him sees,
That half a proper gardener's work
Is done upon his knees.
Richard Kipling

Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.
Helen Keller

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace

The opposite of love is not hate but indifference.
Elie Wiesel

Make Sure the path for your own feet to walk to eternal life, and take as many with you as you can. Take them as they are, understand them as they are, and deal with them as they are; look at them as God looks at them.
Brigham Young

I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad -- as I am now. Laws and principles are not for times when there is no temptation; they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent they are; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth -- so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane... with my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs. Preconceived notions, forgone determinations are all I have at this hour to stand by.
from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

Any word which cannot be spoken in the name of Christ should be left unspoken, any deed that can not properly bear our Lord’s name should be left undone.
Bruce R. McConkie

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