Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of selfless love and compassion in relationships.
Henry B. Eyring's quote speaks to the essence of true love, which is not just about finding joy in one's companion but also about actively seeking their happiness and supporting them through challenges. This love is characterized by a deep understanding, acceptance of flaws, and the desire to lighten burdens, thereby creating a compassionate and fulfilling partnership.
In practice
In a wedding speech to highlight the values of a strong marriage.
My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember God’s kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.
Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.
Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.
We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want so much to have forever.
It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.
It never leaves, not with someone we love. Their presence burns too vivid in our memories. Happen that is as it should be, for otherwise we would too easy forget.
He that is jealous is not in love.
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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