No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone. But where do we think good marriages come from? They don't spring full blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education...Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car?
Jeffrey R. HollandThe world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has โa forgiving dispositionโ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change. You can be helped. You can be made wholeโwhatever the problem.
Jeffrey R. HollandFatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.
Jeffrey R. HollandI suppose it goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak--or at least think--critically of ourselves, and before long that is how we see everyone and everything. No sunshine, no roses, no promise of hope or happiness. Before long we and everybody around us are miserable.
Jeffrey R. Holland