When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.
I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.
How important it is to ascertain the will of God, before we undertake anything, because we are then not only blessed in our own souls, but also the work of our hands will prosper.
May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.
A Mormon knows that the promises of God are true, and He said that all will be tried; realizing these things the Latter-day Saints will acknowledge their Maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations.
Offense cuts you off from God. We separate ourselves from the pipeline. I've never seen anything block blessings from Heaven except offense.
The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.
But God really did bless me, you know? He really said, All right. Come on. I'm still waiting for you. Get over here. Get over here.
I walk by faith because I strongly believe that God has blessed us all with a life of endless opportunities and possibilities.
Whoever says that God is not great, surely hasn't called upon His Mighty name long enough to receive His heavenly blessings.
Who on earth can bring you down when God is already lifting you up to receive bigger and bigger blessings?
Why envy someone else's success when God has already blessed you with a mind to strive and achieve yours?
Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.
If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
Blessed is he who dares to take a step of faith. I'm not a man pleaser, I am a God Pleaser. Turn or Burn.
You were not just blessed for yourself, your were blessed to be a blessing to others.
I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God?
