Conference (Part 2)

The following are quotes from LDS General Conferences that I have enjoyed.  Of course, I'm sure I would exceed my allowed data usage if I were to try to list all of the little quotes that have inspired me, but here are a few of my favorites:

Elder Hales-

"What are your God-given gifts and talents?  Take time to ponder who you are, and act accordingly."

President Uchtdorf- 

"Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our Church callings, and in our livelihood.  Love is the healing balm that repairs rifts in personal and family relationships.  It is the bond that unites families, communities, and nations.  Love is the power that initiates friendship, tolerance, civility, and respect.  It is the source that overcomes divisiveness and hate.  Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope.  Love should be our walk and our talk.  When we truly understand what it means to love as Jesus Christ loves us, the confusion clears and our priorities align.  Our walk as disciples of Christ becomes more joyful.  Our lives take on new meaning.  Our relationship with our Heavenly Father becomes more profound.  Obedience becomes a joy rather than a burden."

Elder Oaks, quoting Elder Nelson-
"Real love does not support self-destructive behavior."

Elder Wirthlin-
"I urge you to examine your life.  Determine where you are and what you need to do to be the kind of person you want to be.  Create inspiring, noble, and righteous goals that fire your imagination and create excitement in your heart.  And then keep your eye on them.  Work consistently towards achieving them.  'If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,' wrote henry David Thoreau, 'and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.'  In other words, never take your eye off the ball."

President Eyring-
"You have the right and the obligation to choose for yourselves.  You can search the scriptures or not.  You can choose to work hard enough, to ponder, and to obey His commandments so that the Holy Ghost can be your companion.  then you will come to know the Savior better and better and your heart will swell with love for Him.  Or you can choose to delay.  You can choose to drift, deciding past efforts will be enough for you.  My warning is a simple matter of cause and effect.  Jesus Christ is the light and the life of the world.  If we do not choose to move toward Him, we will find that we have moved away."

President Monson-
"Who the Lord calls, He qualifies."

Elder Holland-
"I testify of angels, both the heavenly and the mortal kind.  In doing so I am testifying that God never leaves us alone, never leaves us unaided in the challenges that we face.  '[N]or will he, so long as time shall last, or the earth shall stand, or there shall be one man [or woman or child] upon the face thereof to be saved.'  On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distanced from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and dreary places.  Often enough that distress can be of our own making, but even then the Father of us all is watching and assisting.  And always there are those angels who come and go all around us, seen and unseen, known and unknown, mortal and immortal."

Elder Christofferson, quoting Elder Maxwell-

"Let us once and for all establish our residence in Zion and give up the summer cottage in Babylon."