These are some of my favorite scriptures, quotes, and other literature. Most of these I've come across over the course of my life, but likewise most of them have been brought to life with new meaning through this past year. I have many more, but this is all I have time for at the moment.
Scriptures
Isaiah 12:2
~ I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song...
James 1: 19, 20
~ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak , slow to wrath:
for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
James 1: 22
~ But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Proverbs 17:1
~ Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.
Proverbs 3: 3
~ Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart.
Isaiah 40: 31
~ But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Colossians 2: 2, 3
~That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement for the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Isaiah 65: 24
~And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Ether 2: 14-15
~And the Lord did talk with the brother of Jared, and chastened him because he remembered not to call upon the name of the Lord. And the brother of Jared repented....and did call upon the name of the Lord for his brethren.
Quotes
God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.
~Elder Neal A. Maxwell
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
~ James Baldwin
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~Mahatma Gandhi
Poems
The Builder
One day as I passed through a lonely town
I saw some men tearing a building down
With a ho heave ho and a husky yell,
They swung a beam and a sidewall fell.
I asked the foreman, "are these men skilled?
The kind you'd hir if you had to build?"
"Oh no," he chuckled, "no indeed,
The common laborer is all I need."
"Why I can destroy in a day or two,
What has taken a builder weeks to do."
I said to myself as I went on my way,
"Which of these rolls have I tried to play?
Am I a builder that works with care?
Strengthening lives by rule and square?
Or am I a wrecker, that walks around,
Content with the labor of tearing down."
The Weaver
My life is but a weaving,
Between my Lord and me.
I cannot choose the colors,
He worketh steadily.
Oftimes He weaveth sorrow,
And I in foolish pride,
Forget He sees the upper,
And I, the underside.
The dark threads are as needful,
In the weaver's skillful hand,
As the threads of gold and silver,
In the pattern He has planned.
Not 'til the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly,
Shall God unroll the canvas,
and explain the reasons why.
