No one has failed who keeps trying and keeps praying.

Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come.

The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.

He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now.

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

No one has failed who keeps trying and keeps praying.

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)