Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments.
People's lives can be transformed by the movement.
My kids, they'll see stuff on TV and tell me "hey you were in it. " They're living their own lives, but it's interesting to see them discover stuff I've done. They like seeing my movies, but I make my choices for me.
American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives
We must remember there are different seasons in our lives and let God do what He wants to do in each of those seasons.
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.
Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard.
Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice.
Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives
Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarity with Russia or its history, but part of what drives me as a reader, and more and more as a writer, is curiosity, the desire to explore unfamiliar terrain and inhabit alternate lives.
When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives.
But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.
When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds
The atom bomb was no “great decision. ” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives.
We've been gifted with the power of choice. . . in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.