“Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it.” MayImportantSeemsEvilStrongProgressBuildingBrokenPerspectiveEternalAreasMeaningfulDay To DayCordsLove AlwaysActs Of Service Author:Marvin J. Ashton
“Someone has said, “A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am.” Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him.” IfsWayMayPersonsSaidRealAcceptingWillingDefinitionsTake MeReal Friends Author:Marvin J. Ashton
“In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.” MayLastsCan DoHurtCourageEternalEternityRecallsProgressionDiscouragementConsoling Book:Be of Good Cheer Source: Be of Good Cheer
“Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity is ours, for there will come a time when we will wish they would come, and do we know but that the interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?” PeopleKnowsMayImportantYoungOpportunityWishParticularCommunicationImportant ThingsInterruptions Author:Marvin J. Ashton
“As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take long to increase our love in those directions. The purchase of a larger house or a nicer car or a more expensive boat may cause us to sacrifice our resources and develop an unwise love for these symbols of success and pleasure. We learn to love that which we serve, and we serve that which we love.” IfsMayLongHouseCausesPleasureSacrificeCarAdultsResourcesIncreasePrioritiesBoatSymbolsExpensiveGoodsOur LoveWorldlyAcquisitionUnwiseTop Priorities Book:Ye Are My Friends Source: Ye Are My Friends
“I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!” FirstsMayCharacterMotherCausesWifeStyleHabitHusbandFindingsCriticismMiseryFaultsChainsRepeatsNeighborhoodGossipCommentPermitWoeRumorAssassinationContentionPresent TimeMaliciousChainedMurmuringLife StyleWives And MothersFault FindingCausticCharacter Assassination Book:Be of Good Cheer Source: Be of Good Cheer
