Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

God wants to bless us where we are.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ’s rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.

If you give, you will be blessed.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

I’ve been blessed in that regard through and through. So I’m just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I never know what day it is. Never, ever, ever.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

I’ve been very fortunate.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.