“We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great, the eternal principles of life and truth. The Lord wishes to establish a closer and more intimate relationship between Himself and us; He wishes to elevate us in the scale of being and intelligence, and this can only be done through the medium of the everlasting Gospel which is specially prepared for this purpose.” DonePurposeOpportunityWishForgetLordPrinciplesEternalPreparedScalesMediumsDevelopingIntimateEverlastingIntimate Relationships Author:Lorenzo Snow
“Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar that through which we are now passing. He became God - an exalted being - through obedience to the same eternal Gospel truths that we are given opportunity today to obey.” MenTodaySchoolEarthFatherOpportunityGivenTaughtEternalPassingPassingsMortalsObedienceProphetSublimeExaltedEarth LifeGiven Opportunity Author:Milton R. Hunter
“The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.” UseOpportunityImagineMissingEternalSatisfactionPunishmentRepentanceSentimentsBenevolenceScarceMissing It Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.” OpportunityChristOffersEternalTradeRewardsIncrediblesGoodsTemporaryCurrency Book:The Law of Rewards: Giving what you can't keep to gain what you can't lose. Source: The Law of Rewards: Giving what you can't keep to gain what you can't lose.
“The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingInspirationSpiritualOrderOpportunityBeliefQualityPiecesMovementAmbitionEternalSellsCompetitionAvailableAbundanceEnlightenedCollaborationPieScarcityGet Ahead Author:Marianne Williamson
“There is no fullness of joy in the next life without a family unit, including a husband, a wife, and posterity. Further, men are that they might have joy. In the eternal perspective, same-gender activity will only bring sorrow and grief and the loss of eternal opportunities.” MenMightJoyNextOpportunityLossGriefWifePerspectiveSorrowActivityHusbandEternalIncludingGenderUnitsFullnessPosterityNext LifeFamily Unit Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“We urge persons with same-gender attractions to control those and to refrain from acting upon them, which is a sin, just as we urge persons with heterosexual attractions to refrain from acting upon them until they have the opportunity for a marriage recognized by God as well as by the law of the land. That is the way to happiness and eternal life.” WayWellsPersonsLawOpportunitySinActingLandEternalGenderAttractionUrgesEternal LifeRefrain Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.” WorldCultureOpportunityThis WorldEternalLoyaltyCropsSwearing Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who condescended to come into this world of misery, struggle, and pain to touch men's hearts for good, to teach the way of eternal life, and to give Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind. How different, how empty our lives would be without Him. How infinite is our opportunity for exaltation made possible through His redeeming love.” MenWorldWayGivingHeartMadeDifferentWould BePainOpportunityJesusChristSinTeachStruggleOur LivesSacrificeMankindThis WorldSonEternalJesus ChristEmptyInfiniteMiseryEternal LifeExaltationRedeemingRedeeming Love Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.” IfsKnowsSoulMomentsOrderFallOpportunityGrowsUnderstandingAcceptingStruggleEternalConsciousGainsCaughtLimitationTrapsWorthless Author:Paulo Coelho
“I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal, is the same spoken of by the Lord and found in the Pearl of Great Price: "For behold, this is my work and my glory-to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." May we ever remember that the mantle of membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not a cloak of comfort but rather a robe of responsibility. Our duty, in addition to saving ourselves, is to guide others to the celestial kingdom of God.” MenMayRealRememberFoundOpportunityJesusGoalChristLosesChurchResponsibilityLordHe ManDutyComfortEternalGloryJesus ChristCharitySaintGuidesKingdomsObjectivesSavingImmortalityLatterPearlsKingdom Of GodEternal LifeCelestialCloaksRobesMembershipLatter DaysLatter Day Saints Author:Thomas S. Monson
“Become aware, awake. Then you will see that everything comes and goes, all things come and pass. Life is a flux. Your consciousness is the only thing that is immovable, that is eternal. To attain it is freedom. To attain it is the goal of life. If you miss it you have missed your life and you have missed a tremendously great gift, a great opportunity.” IfsLife IsOpportunityGoalFreedomConsciousnessMissingEternalAll ThingsAwakeComes And GoesLife GoalGreat OpportunityFluxGreat GiftsMissed You Author:Rajneesh