“God cares a lot more about who we are and about who we are becoming, than about who we once were.”
| "Latter-day Saints Keep on Trying"
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Potential
LDS Quotes on Potential
“Look for Christ and you will find him, and with him everything else thrown in.”
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“I recognize that, on occasion, some of our most fervent prayers may seem to go unanswered. We wonder, ‘Why?’ I know that feeling! I know the fears and tears of such moments. But I also know that our prayers are never ignored. Our faith is never unappreciated. I know that an all-wise Heavenly Father’s perspective is much broader than is ours. While we know of our mortal problems and pain, He knows of our immortal progress and potential. If we pray to know His will and submit ourselves to it with patience and courage, heavenly healing can take place in His own way and time.”
| Jesus Christ—the Master Healer, Ensign, Nov. 2005, 86
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Perhaps you don’t consider yourself all that useful; perhaps you don’t consider yourself a blessing in somebody’s life. Often, when we look at ourselves, we see only our limitations and deficiencies. We might think we have to be “more” of something for God to use us–more intelligent, more wealthy, more charismatic, more talented, more spiritual. Blessings will come not so much because of your abilities but because of your choices. And the God of the universe will work within and through you, magnifying your humble efforts for His purposes.
| A Yearning for Home
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“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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“We humans have a lamentable tendency to spend more time theorizing reasons behind human suffering, than working to alleviate human suffering, and in imagining a heaven above, than creating a heaven in our homes and communities.”
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“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
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“The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better.”
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“It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future – sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.”
| Mean's Search for Meaning
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God doesn’t care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.
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