"But the most beautiful things in life are not just things. They are people and places, memories and pictures. They're feelings and moments and smiles and laughter."

C.S. Lewis Quotes

 A noble friend is the best gift. A noble enemy is the next best. -C.S. Lewis

How little people know who think holiness is dull. When on meets the real thing, it is irresistible.

-C.S. Lewis -Letters to An American Lady

It is easier to pry for a bore than to go and see him.

-Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Quotes

When your child walks into the room do your eyes light up? That's what they're looking for.

No matter what happens, don't become a man who yells at his wife and his but talks nicely to strangers.

Do not do something that you cannot ask God to help you do. -Heber C. Grant

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. -Leo Tolstoy

Then ordinary arts we practice everyday at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas Moore

Of all the tests we face, none hurts more than the death of a loved one or the misery of sin. Fortunately, our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, has provided a way for all of God’s children to be delivered from death and washed clean from the sorrows of sin. The reality of the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ is a source of hope and determination.

All who trust Him for strength to endure to the end of life, treasure these words:

“And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.

Now the Spirit knoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me” (Alma 7:12–13).

Consecration thoughts:

-Shift from how much do I need to give to how much can I give? From what laws do I have to keep to how can I better keep God's laws.

-Example of a woman's sacrifice to raise her children as an example. It made me think of the worth of each of their souls in God's eyes. What price do you pay for a soul of infinite worth?

-"Repent Relentlessly"

-This made me want to sit down and write out ideas of how I can use my gifts and circumstances to better build God's kingdom.

-I also appreciate eat thought that we are practicing to keep these covenants It gives me hope to become better. I am admittedly and of shallow and vain so hopefully, my efforts will help me overcome these tendencies.

-Clean the church example -haha

We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants

John Ruskin

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! This our fathers did for us."

Elder Faust - The Great Imitator

I wish to testify that there are forces which will save us from the ever-increasing lying, disorder, violence, chaos, destruction, misery, and deceit that are upon the earth. Those saving forces are the everlasting principles, covenants, and ordinances of the eternal gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. These same principles, covenants, and ordinances are coupled with the rights and powers of the priesthood of Almighty God. We of this church are the possessors and custodians of these commanding powers which can and do roll back much of the power of Satan on the earth. We believe that we hold these mighty forces in trust for all who have died, for all who are now living, and for the yet unborn.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1987/10/the-great-imitator?lang=eng

Holiness

C.S. Lewis 

How little people know who think holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible.

Good Against Evil

 I wish to testify that there are forces which will save us from the ever-increasing lying, disorder, violence, chaos, destruction, misery, and deceit that are upon the earth. Those saving forces are the everlasting principles, covenants, and ordinances of the eternal gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. These same principles, covenants, and ordinances are coupled with the rights and powers of the priesthood of Almighty God. We of this church are the possessors and custodians of these commanding powers which can and do roll back much of the power of Satan on the earth. We believe that we hold these mighty forces in trust for all who have died, for all who are now living, and for the yet unborn.

James E. Faust

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1987/10/the-great-imitator?lang=eng

 The things which hurt, instruct.

-Benjamin Franklin