“If prayer is only a spasmodic cry at the time of crisis, then it is utterly selfish, and we come to think of God as a repairman or a service agency to help us only in our emergencies. We should remember the Most High day and night-always-not only at times when all other assistance has failed and we desperately need help.” IfsThinkingNeedsShouldHelpingRememberNightPrayerCryCrisisSelfishAgencyAssistanceEmergenciesDay And NightNeed HelpTimes Of Crisis Author:Howard W. Hunter
“We need to be kinder with one another, more gentle and forgiving. We need to be slower to anger and more prompt to help. We need to extend the hand of friendship and resist the hand of retribution. In short, we need to love one another with the pure love of Christ, with genuine charity and compassion and, if necessary, shared suffering, for that is the way God loves us.” IfsWayNeedsHelpingHandsSufferingChristCompassionPureForgivingCharityGenuineGod LoveGentleRetributionLove One AnotherPromptsPure LoveKinderGod Loves Us Book:That We Might Have Joy Source: That We Might Have Joy
“To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.” NeedsMightSpiritualEnjoyQualityLearningHigherDisciplineOccasionsFortunateTunesFastingLess Fortunate Author:Howard W. Hunter
“We need to remember that though we make our friends, God has made our neighbors – everywhere. Love should have no boundary; we should have no narrow loyalties.” LoveNeedsShouldMadeRememberShould HaveNeighborLoyaltyBoundariesNo Boundaries Author:Howard W. Hunter
“There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us.” NeedsEvilChurchSurroundTidesBrethren Author:Howard W. Hunter
“Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift freely given from heaven, a gift that we need from our earliest youth through the very latest days of our lives.” LifeNeedsSpiritualLife IsGivenHeavenOur LivesYouthDivinePromiseGuidanceDivinityAssistanceReassuringTime Of NeedSpiritual Guidance Book:That We Might Have Joy Source: That We Might Have Joy
“We need a more peaceful world, growing out of more peaceful families and neighborhoods and communities. To secure and cultivate such peace, "we must love others, even our enemies as well as our friends"” WorldLoveNeedsWellsPeaceCommunityEnemyGrowingPeacefulSecureNeighborhoodPeaceful World Book:That We Might Have Joy Source: That We Might Have Joy
“To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true course. If, however, he happens to look back to see where he has been, his chances of straying are increased. The results are crooked and irregular furrows...Fix your attention on your...goals and never look back on your earlier problems....If our energies are focused not behind us but ahead of us--on eternal life and the joy of salvation--we assuredly will obtain it.” IfsNeedsLooksHas BeensProblemHappensEyeJoyCoursesEnergyGoalChanceResultsBehindsAttentionEternalSalvationFocusedGenerosityFixedHis EyesEternal LifeCrooked Author:Howard W. Hunter
