Quotes, quotes, quotes. Happy, happy, happy!

One of my religion class professors would always give us pages and pages of quotes about specific topics we were discussing at the time, and the other day I decided to pull them out to include in my scripture study.  These are a few of my favorite ones:

"If we refuse to take reasonable risks, we may in effect be refusing to progress and that is what life is all about.  This is where faith comes in.  We do what is right and let the consequences follow.  God will help us, I know that for sure.  If we protect ourselves from too many things, we may protect ourselves right out of the Celestial Kingdom."

 - John H. Groberg

"With any major decisions there are cautions and considerations to make, but once there has been illumination, beware the temptation to retreat from a good thing.  If it was right when you prayed about it and trusted it and lived for it, it is right now.  Don't give up when the pressure mounts.  Certainly don't give in to that being who is bent on the destruction of your happiness. 'Cast not away therefore your confidence'.  Stay on course and see the beauty of life unfold for you."

-Jeffrey R. Holland

"Man radiates what he is, and that radiation affects to a great or less degree every person who comes within that radiation.  William George Jordan impressively writes: 'Man cannot escape for one moment from this radiation of his character, this constantly weakening or strengthening of others.  He cannot evade the responsibility by saying it is an unconscious influence.  He can select the qualities that he will permit to be radiated.  He can select the qualities that he will permit to be radiated.  He can cultivate sweetness, calmness, trust, generosity, truth, justice, loyalty, nobility - make them vitally active in his character - and by these qualities he will constantly affect the world.'"
 - David O. McKay

"We are expected to assume accountability by acting on a decision that is consistent with His teachings without prior confirmation.  We are not to sit passively waiting or to murmur becasue the Lord has not spoken.  We are to act."
 - Richard G. Scott

"In making important decisions, fear does not play a helpful role, except as a warning when we are in a physically threatening situation.  If we are feeling fear, it is a great sign that we are on the right track because [Lucifer] is trying to overturn our progress and happiness.  So many of us would never let Satan influence us through serious sin, but we more easily let the Adversary immobilize us by letting him place fear in our hearts."
 -Mary Jane Woodger

"One definitions of perfect os 'never having flaw or error.'  In this sense, only one person in all of human history - our Savior  - has been perfect.  Perfect can also mean 'having all flaws and errors removed.'  [God] wants us to strive for perfection, but the fact that we have not yet achieved it does not mean we are failing." 
 - Gerald N. Lund

These are words of our past or current leaders and I know that they are true!  These words come from God and if we lean on His words, we will NOT be lead astray.  I love our leaders.  I love their diligence and their testimonies.  The church is true! :)  

Happy Sabbath.