Quotes from a talk entitled, "Portraits of Eve: God's Promises of Personal Identity"
"The temple provides protection and it provides patterns and promises that can settle and strengthen and stabilize us, however anxious our times."
". . . accepting that we are worth the time and effort it takes to achieve the full measure of our creation, and believing that it is not selfish, wrong or evil. It is in fact, essential to our spiritual development. . . Unless we take care of ourselves, it is virtually impossible to properly take care of others"
"Our father in heaven needs us as we are, as we are growing to become. He has intentionally made us different from one another so that even with our imperfections we can fulfil his purposes. My greatest
misery comes when I feel I have to fit what others expect of me. I am most happy when I am comfortable being me and trying to do what my father in heaven and I expect me to be. . . I have learned through several fatiguing failures that you can't have joy in being bubbly if you are not a bubbly person. . . I have given up seeing myself as a flawed person. . . Giving this up has freed me to embrace and rejoice in my own manner and personality in the measure of my own creation. . . My personality was created to fit precisely the mission and talents he gave me. . . Each of us will have peace only as we are filling the measure of our own creation."
"God never gave us any task beyond our ability to accomplish it. We just have to be willing to do it our own way. We will always have enough resources for being who we are and what we can become. . . We must each prepare right now to intensify our own inner journey."
"I have learned to say no to some things in order to be able to say yes to others. The most important yes we can say to our children is, "YES, I have time for you." And for me that means both quantity and quality time."
"Where we choose to spend our time reveals to our children exactly how valuable they are."
Quotes from a talk entitled, "A woman's Perspective on the Priesthood"
"Our greatest task is to live worthily enough to know step by step what the Lord's will is regarding us."
"This world is not our ultimate home; and while we do have to live here, we are not ever really of this world. And we do not seek its praise."
"The crucial point we need to come to as Latter-day Saint men and women is not to allow ourselves to feel forced into righteous choices, but to come to them of our own free and anxious will.
"If we listen too often to the voices of the world, we will become confused and tainted. We must anchor ourselves in the spirit, and that requires daily vigilance."
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