* ‘successful parenting’

Facing upward is critical for successful parenting. Families deserve guidance from heaven. Parents cannot counsel children adequately from personal experience, fear, or sympathy. But when parents face children as would the Creator who gave them life, parents will be...

~ ‘Examples of Righteousness’

President Thomas S. Monson (then our Prophet, now deceased) spoke April 2008 in the Priesthood session of General Conference. Again, his words are timeless and really, for any audience seeking to live their lives closer to the pattern of our Savior, Jesus Christ....

* Martin Luther

From the ‘Men of Faith’ series re Martin Luther: “At the age of twenty-eight, the pattern of Martin’s life appeared to be set. He would lecture twice a week, every week, to progressive generations of students at Wittenberg, until he became so...

~ Leading, Following

Addressed to the Aaronic Priesthood, but for all of us of any age and either gender to learn/grow from; Stephen W. Owen, Young Men General President said in April Conference of 2016: “If I were to ask you… Who is the greatest leader who ever lived?”—what...

* apologize

Randy Pausch (deceased) shared, in his national best selling book, “The Last Lecture”: ‘A Bad Apology Is Worse Than No Apology. He said: “Apologies are not pass/fail. I always told my students: When giving an apology, any performance lower than...

~ Good, Better, Best

Elder Dallin H. Oaks said in October Conference of 2007: “….As we consider various choices, we should remember that it is not enough that something is good. Other choices are better, and still others are best. Even though a particular choice is more...

* Character – Goals

” We launch into the future from a firm foundation. Our span of life has increased significantly. Transportation, communication and education have improved. We learned how to set high goals and work toward their achievement. First we dream, then persevere with...

~ Prayer

Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (deceased) said in a Conference talk in April 2007: Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. This conference began with a profoundly moving presentation of the classic hymn “Sweet Hour...

* take time…

… a sign on the wall of a children’s home in Calcutta… reads: TAKE TIME TO THINK TAKE TIME TO PRAY TAKE TIME TO LAUGH IT IS THE  SOURCE OF POWER IT IS THE GREATEST POWER ON EARTH IT IS THE MUSIC OF THE SOUL   TAKE  TIME TO PLAY TAKE TIME TO LOVE...

~ now’s the time

A huge blessing of the gospel of Jesus Christ as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is its openness… that we can learn and study from all its inspired sources. I am grateful as a man to watch the women’s session of General Conference...

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