"I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine."

John 10:14

“My life is but a weaving
Between my God and me.
I cannot choose the colors
He weaveth steadily."

-Corrie Ten Boom, "Life is but a Weaving", (continued below)

"Sometimes the world appears dark.  Sometimes our faith is tried.  Sometimes we feel that the heavens are closed against us.  Yet we should not despair.  We should never abandon our faith.  We should not lose hope."

(President Joseph B. Wirthlin, "Shall He Find Faith on Earth?")

"As we love the temple, touch the temple, and attend the temple, our lives will reflect our faith"

-President Thomas S. Monson, "Blessings of the Temple"

"There is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name.  And whoso knocketh, to him will he open" (2 Nephi 9:41-42)

"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people"

(1 Peter 2:9)

"The righteous are bold as a lion" (Proverbs 28:1)

"...In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children."

(Alma 46:12)

“How could you do this to me? I was making such wonderful growth. … And now you have cut me down. Every plant in the garden will look down on me… I thought you were the gardener here"

“Look, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be...And someday...when you are laden with fruit, you are going to say, ‘Thank you, Mr. Gardener, for loving me enough to cut me down.’”

"And now, almost 50 years later, I look up to [God] and say, ‘Thank you, Mr. Gardener, for cutting me down, for loving me enough to hurt me.”

(Story of President Hugh B. Brown from "As Many As I Love, I Rebuke and Chasten" by Elder D. Todd Christofferson; full story below)

"And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of acloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people."

(Exodus 13:21-22)

"Therefore, will I not make solitary places to bud and to blossom, and to bring forth in abundance?"
(Doctrine and Covenants 117:7)

"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isaiah 1:18)

"Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness...make thy way straight before me."
(Psalms 5:8)

"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.  I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely."

(Revelations 21:6)

"What was once a tiny seed of belief for me has grown into the tree of life, so if your faith is a little tested in this or any season, I invite you to lean on mine... First and forever fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe."

(Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, "Lord, I Believe")

"For God doth not walk in crooked paths, neither does he turn to the right hand nor to the left, neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round."

(Doctrine and Covenants 3:2)

"We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost."

Article of Faith 1:1

“For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.”

(Ecclesiastes 4:9-10)

“There are great challenges ahead of us, giant opportunities to be met. I welcome that exciting prospect and feel to say to the Lord, humbly, ‘Give me this mountain,’ give me these challenges.”

-President Spencer W. Kimball

"For he is like a refiner's fire, and like a fuller's soap; and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver...and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness." (Doctrine & Covenants 128:24)

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
(Proverbs 3:5-6)

¨And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." 

(Isaiah 2:3)

Good Light

"Lead, kindly Light, amid th'encircling gloom;

Lead thou me on!

The night is dark, and I am far from home;

Lead thou me on!

Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see

The distant scene-one step enough for me."
("Lead, Kindly Light" LDS Hymnbook #97)