“God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year; And O! preserve my father too, And may I pay him reverence due; And may I my best thoughts employ To be my parents' hope and joy; And O! preserve my brothers both From evil doings, and from sloth, And may we always love each other, Our friends, our father, and our mother, And still, O Lord, to me impart An innocent and grateful heart, That after my last sleep I may Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.” YearsHeartMayStillsLastsJoyMotherEvilFatherParentPrayerSleepPayLordGraceBrotherEternalGratefulDearDuesInnocentPreservesAwakeMy BrotherGrantsReverenceOur FatherLove Each OtherImpartSlothAmenDoingsGrateful Heart Book:The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge
“My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music still in us. Let us rather use this precious mortal probation to move confidently and gloriously upward toward the eternal life which God our Father gives to those who keep his commandments.” GivingStillsUseMovingDiesFatherEternalInstrumentsMortalsMelodyCommandmentsOur FatherEternal LifeProbation Author:Spencer W. Kimball
“Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all "fulness of blessing," both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.” WorldChildrenMadeStatesLightSpiritFatherHeavenChristLibertyGraceThis WorldSonReturnHolyPromiseBlessingEternalGloryReflectionStoresKingdomsHoly SpiritEnjoymentParadiseAdoptionOur FatherRestorationKingdom Of HeavenAscension Author:Saint Basil
“I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of quicksand I plead with you to avoid. You are of a noble birthright. Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal.” DreamTodayFatherGoalBrokenEternalNobleKingdomsOur FatherCrushedEternal LifeCovenantShatteredBirthrightQuicksandQuagmireShattered Dreams Author:Thomas S. Monson
“I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.” ChildrenI CanReasonPurposeFatherLinesHigherEternalAdministrationNo ReasonOur FatherProgressionAdvancing Author:B. H. Roberts
“One of the great blessings of the restored gospel is the privilege of entering into sacred covenants with our Father in Heaven-covenants made binding by virtue of the holy priesthood. When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage-in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.” MadeFatherHeavenVirtueHolyBlessingEternalCommitmentSacredPrivilegeTemplesCommandmentsEnteringEverlastingOur FatherSolemnCovenantBindingBrethrenPriesthoodEndowmentOrdinancesBaptizedFather In HeavenEternal Marriage Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin
“I witness the reality and divinity of our Eternal Father, of His Only Begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Ghost. I testify that our Father hears and answers our prayers. May each of us strive with greater resolve to ask in faith and thereby make our prayers truly meaningful.” MayRealityAsksFatherJesusChristPrayerAnswersLordGreaterSonHolyEternalJesus ChristStriveMeaningfulGhostWitnessDivinityResolveOur PrayersOur FatherHoly GhostLord Jesus Christ Author:David A. Bednar
“The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.” MomentsFatherRealizingEternalEverlastingOur Father Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?” KnowsShouldFirstsFatherJesusPerfectOne ThingBrotherHonorHolyEternalAnd LoveGhostWelfareEldersOur FatherHoly GhostUndoneRedeemer Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.” MayEnoughFatherStrongMorningSunMoonEternalTiredEveningAppetiteEvery MorningStrong EnoughOur FatherOrthodoxyInfancyDaisiesMonotony Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“To be "in Christ" is to place one's trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be "in Christ" is to trust His goodness, not our own; to trust that His sacrificial death on the cross paid the complete debt of death we owe for our sin; to trust that His resurrection gives us eternal life instead of relying upon our own ability to please God. To be "in Christ" is to claim, by faith, the free gift of salvation. To be "in Christ" is to enjoy a completely restored relationship with our Father in heaven by virtue of His Son's righteous standing.” GivingFatherHeavenEnjoyChristSinAbilityVirtueSonPleaseGoodnessEternalStandingCrossesClaimsPaidSalvationDebtResurrectionRighteousOur FatherEternal LifeFather In HeavenFree Gifts Author:Charles R. Swindoll