You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.
Interpretation
This quote encourages perseverance and faith in overcoming difficulties.
Henry B. Eyring emphasizes the importance of maintaining faith and courage in the face of challenges. He reassures us that paths to overcome obstacles are already laid out, and with determination and belief in ourselves, we can navigate through tough times successfully.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students to keep pushing through their studies.
My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember Godβs kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.
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.
Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.
We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want so much to have forever.
It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.
It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
I've won every single event there is to win as a wrestler, and I still continue to come back every single year. The hard part for me is, 'OK, how long can you do this?'
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
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