Anxiously Engaged Quotes & Sayings

The choice for devoted Latter-day Saint women is not just to simply go forward and try to be happy and create a fulfilling life. As women of covenant our goal is to go forward and develop stron testimonies and nurturing and caring hearts that will prepare us for our roles as mothers in eternity. With that end in mind, I determined to go on happily, to become 'anxiously engaged in a good cause' (D&C 58:27), and to believe that the rest would take care of itself. — Kristen McMain Oaks

It's cleansing. If I hadn't been at work all the time, I would have been a lunatic. — Mason Currey

I don't remember what it means to breathe. I never, ever knew what it meant to feel. — Tahereh Mafi

As Latter-day Saints we must ever be vigilant. The way for each person and each family to guard against the slings and arrows of the Adversary and to prepare for the great day of the Lord is to hold fast to the iron rod, to exercise greater faith, to repent of our sins and shortcomings, and to be anxiously engaged in the work of His kingdom on earth, which is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Herein lies the only true happiness for all our Father's children. — Spencer W. Kimball

While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development. — Howard W. Hunter

Great things are brought about and burdens are lightened through the efforts of many hands anxiously engaged in a good cause. — M. Russell Ballard

You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education. — Lawrence Block

Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the player. While cheerleaders serve an important purpose, the real contest involves players on the field or on the court of life. We must not go through life acting only as enthusiastic cheerleaders available for hire; we must be anxiously and personally engaged. — Neal A. Maxwell

We learn and experience ourselves only through suffering; everything else is humbug. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing invites imitation like apparent success. The — Anne Perry

Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness; 28. For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward. — Joseph Smith Jr.

There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. — Mignon McLaughlin

Darling," she said, "we're a train wreck."
"Sweetheart," I said, "train wrecks always make the front page. — Raziel Reid

Correcting Another Believer 15"If another believer* sins against you,* go privately and point out the offense. If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back. 16But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses. 17If the person still refuses to listen, take your case to the church. Then if he or she won't accept the church's decision, treat that person as a pagan or a corrupt tax collector. — Hendrickson Bibles

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. — Allen Tate

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. — Harry S. Truman

Ironically, the opportunity to go into space brings you back down to Earth big time! My decision must also take into account my children, my family and my friends. I must be at peace with this decision. And I was. I weighed the risks without letting fear feed on fear. There is no room for fear in my life. — Guy Laliberte