John Bytheway
While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache.Collection: Dating
An important part of dating is communicating. We communicate by sharing our thoughts, ideas, and feelings. We enjoy being with someone when we have an easy time communicating or when we have a lot to talk about.Collection: Dating
Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.Collection: Strength
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.Collection: Courage
Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. We don't know the meaning of all things, but we know God loves His children! And because He loves us, He will never desert us.
Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land.
When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.
If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.
God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.
Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.
To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.
Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.
Occasionally, we are given a reminder of how precious a gift it is to understand the plan of salvation.
Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.
If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.
The topic 'Farm Wisdom' is not a gospel doctrine or scriptural topic, although I found considerable scriptural support for the lessons learned on the farm.
My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.
I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an appreciation for the farm's best lessons.
In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.
Be the kind of friend who takes people to Christ.
Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to think fast.
Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.
Thanks to the restored gospel, we know our spirits lived before we were born into this mortal existence.
One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.
Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.
Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.
I was never involved in any fights in high school. I'm glad I wasn't. I'm not very big, and I don't find great joy in cuts and bruises.
It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.Collection: Yearbook
Some people will dream big dreams while others will wake up and do them.Collection: Moving On
The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?Collection: Average
Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.Collection: Yards
If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.Collection: Love
Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.Collection: Faithful
One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency is our power to choose, and addiction is what happens when we have lost that power and we are controlled by something else.Collection: Struggle
Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.Collection: Choices
We're not thinking straight if we say we want to be like Jesus but we don't want to go through anything Jesus went through!Collection: Jesus
If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters!Collection: Clever
The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)Collection: Thinking
If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this?Collection: Strong
I suppose that one of the greatest benefits of studying Isaiah is the process of studying Isaiah. Searching the scriptures puts you in a pondering, searching frame of mind in which inspiration can come, allowing you to find ways to apply scriptural truths to your life.Collection: Inspiration
Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!Collection: Rocks
We don’t LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they areCollection: Grandma
Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!Collection: Twenties
Go and do, don't sit and stew.Collection: Stew
What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!Collection: Jesus
The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.Collection: Afar
The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.Collection: Country
The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.Collection: Live Life
you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!Collection: Finding Happiness