These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.
Interpretation
Difficulties often precede significant blessings.
This quote suggests that the challenges and burdens we face in life serve as precursors to greater mercies and rewards. By enduring hardships, we may uncover valuable lessons and experiences that lead to positive outcomes, emphasizing the importance of patience and resilience during tough times.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a community event, highlighting the lessons learned from struggles.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.
Things always become obvious after the fact
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
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