G.C. Droplets April 2022 -"Then Will I Make Weak Things Become Strong"

 It is our faith that unlocks the power of God in our lives. -Kevin S. Hamilton (quoting Russell M. Nelson)

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -"Then Will I Make Weak Things Become Strong"

 Humility, coupled with faith in Jesus Christ, will allow us to access the enabling power of His grace and the fulness of blessings available because of His Atonement. -Kevin S. Hamilton

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -"Then Will I Make Weak Things Become Strong"

 The Lord's condition for change is humility. -Kevin S. Hamilton

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -"Then Will I Make Weak Things Become Strong"

 Requirements to change according to the Lord's pattern.
First, we must humble ourselves. 
Second, we must have faith in Jesus Christ. 
Third, through His grace He can make weak things become strong. 
-Kevin S. Hamilton

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -"Then Will I Make Weak Things Become Strong"

 Some are wont to say, 'The Savior loves me just as I am,' and that is certainly true. But He cannot take any of us into His kingdom just as we are, 'for no unclean thing can dwell there, or dwell in his presence.' Our sins must first be resolved. -Kevin S. Hamilton (quoting D. Todd Christofferson)

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -"Then Will I Make Weak Things Become Strong"

 When Jesus asks you and me to 'repent,' He is inviting us to change. -Kevin S. Hamilton (quoting Russell M. Nelson)

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -"Then Will I Make Weak Things Become Strong"

 While it is indeed good to be authentic, we should be authentic to our real, true selves as sons and daughters of God with a divine nature and destiny to become like Him. -Kevin S. Hamilton

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -"Then Wil I Make Weak Things Become Strong"

 One of Satan's greatest lies is that men and women cannot change. -Kevin S. Hamilton

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Miracles--Then and Now

 We are not alone. Heavenly Father's help is near. -Thomas S. Monson

October 1992 -Miracles--Then and Now

 Self-pity, personal withdrawal, or deep despair will not bring the peace, the assurance, or help which are needed. Rather, we must go forward, look upward, move onward, and rise heavenward. -Thomas S. Monson

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Is the Plan Working?

 Never will the plan of happiness become more real to you than when you are helping others to live it. -Adrian Ochoa

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Is the Plan Working?

 Humble yourself before the Lord, and He will lift you up to greater things. -Adrian Ochoa

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Is the Plan Working?

 No matter how long you've been trying to tread water without Him, it's never too late to reach out to Him. -Adrian Ochoa

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Is the Plan Working?

 No matter where we are and where we have been, repentance is the way forward. -Adrian Ochoa

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Is the Plan Working?

 When we struggle--for any reason--that does not mean the plan isn't working. That is when we need the plan the most! -Adrian Ochoa

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Is the Plan Working?

 The plan was not for us to glide easily through life, never stumbling, never sinking, with a smile always on our face. Heavenly Father knew that we would need to be redeemed. This is why He prepared the plan of redemption. -Adrian Ochoa

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Is the Plan Working?

 In times of trouble, turn to Jesus Christ right away. -Adrian Ochoa

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Is the Plan Working?

 Do not minimize the faith you already have. -Adrian Ochoa (quoting Russell M. Nelson)

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Is the Plan Working?

 Faith in the Savior brings peace and the strength to move forward. -Adrian Ochoa

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Is the Plan Working?

 Act in faith in Jesus Christ. -Adrian Ochoa

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -"Settle This in Your Hearts"

 Being settled keeps us from responding to every little ripple of dissent as if it were a tidal wave. -Neal A. Maxwell

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -"Settle This in Your Hearts"

 Friends who would hold us back spiritually are not true friends at all. -Neal A. Maxwell

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -"A Prophet's Testimony"

 The Holy Ghost can teach us things that we cannot teach one another. -Gordon B. Hinckley

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -"A Prophet's Testimony"

 The adversary is abroad in the earth. He would seek to destroy this work, but if we are united, all of us, his efforts will be of no avail. -Gordon B. Hinckley

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -"A Prophet's Testimony"

 I am confident that each of us has had stirred within himself or herself a resolution to live a little better, to be a little kinder, to serve with less selfishness, to be more worthy of the wonderful blessings the Lord has generously poured out upon us. -Gordon B. Hinckley

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -We Each Have a Story

 Let good things begin with you. -Gerrit W. Gong

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -We Each Have a Story

 God wants our families to be happy and forever. Forever is too long if we make each other unhappy. -Gerrit W. Gong

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -We Each Have a Story

 Genetics and family patterns influence but do not determine us. -Gerrit W. Gong

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -We Each Have a Story

 We need roots to have wings--real relationships, meaningful service, life beyond fleeting social media veneers. -Gerrit W. Gong

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -We Each Have a Story

 Still very much alive, our ancestors deserve to be remembered. -Gerrit W. Gong

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -We Each Have a Story

Whether you are your first or tenth known generation, connect yesterday for tomorrow. Connect the roots and branches in your living family tree. -Gerrit W. Gong

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -A Loving, Communicating God

 To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises. -Marion D. Hanks

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -A Loving, Communicating God

 We must choose; we are the decision makers. -Marion D. Hanks

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -A Loving, Communicating God

 Our Heavenly Father desires that all mankind be led by the light, but that blessing will not be imposed upon anyone. -Marion D. Hanks

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -Back to Gospel Basics

 Never let a day go by without holding family prayer and family scripture study. Put this, the Lord's program, to the test; and see if it does not bless your home with greater peace, hope, love, and faith. -L. Tom Perry

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -Back to Gospel Basics

 It is so satisfying to know that God is mindful of us and ready to respond when we place our trust in Him. -L. Tom Perry

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -Back to Gospel Basics

 Let us consider again the blessings promised us if we faithfully practice daily family prayer and daily family scripture study. -L. Tom Perry

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Lift Up Your Heart and Rejoice

 It is true that all the children of God are blessed in one way or another, but there is a difference between being blessed and being richly blessed in His service. -Marcos A. Aidukaitis

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Lift Up Your Heart and Rejoice

 Anytime you do anything that helps anyone--on either side of the veil--take a step toward making covenants with God and receiving their essential baptismal and temple ordinances, you are helping to gather Israel. It is as simple as that. -Marcos A. Aidukaitis (quoting Russell M. Nelson)

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Healing Your Damaged Life

 It is one thing to know how to heal your damaged life. It is quite another to do it. You will change only when you recognize that it will bring lasting personal benefit. -Richard G. Scott

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Healing Your Damaged Life

 A true friend is not one that always encourages you to do what you want to do, but one who helps you do what you know you ought to do. -Richard G. Scott

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Healing Your Damaged Life

 Your obedience to truth and proper use of agency open the door to His divine help. -Richard G. Scott

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Healing Your Damaged Life

 Recognize that it takes time to build a reputation that overcomes the effects of past deliberate decisions. -Richard G. Scott

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Healing Your Damaged Life

 You may have found that change is hard. But know you can do it. -Richard G. Scott

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Healing Your Damaged Life

 You must face the challenge and conquer it. -Richard G. Scott

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Healing Your Damaged Life

 Our agency does allow us to choose among alternate paths, but then we are bound to the consequence God has decreed. -Richard G. Scott

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Healing Your Damaged Life

 No one has the privilege to choose what is right. God reserved that prerogative to Himself. -Richard G. Scott

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Healing Your Damaged Life

 Satan strives to persuade us to live outside truth by rationalizing our actions as the right of choice. -Richard G. Scott

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Healing Your Damaged Life

 Please understand that no one can change truth. Rationalization, overpowering self-interest, all of the arguments of men, anger, or self-will cannot change truth. -Richard G. Scott

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Healing Your Damaged Life

 You may be tired of others trying to run your life--always telling you what to do. After all, you have the right to make your own choices. That is correct. You have that right. It is your agency. The secret to solve problems in your life will be found in understanding and using the eternally beneficial interactions of your agency and His truth. -Richard G. Scott

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -Come unto Christ

 Self-control and self-discipline are important virtues that need to be developed. -Lowell D. Wood

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -Come unto Christ

 Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He will deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their souls, raise up friends, and pour out peace. -Lowell D. Wood (quoting Ezra Taft Benson)

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

 Jesus specializes in the seemingly impossible. He came here to make the impossible possible, the irredeemable redeemable, to heal the unhealable, to right the unrightable, to promise the unpromisable. And He's really good at it. In fact, He's perfect at it. -Patrick Kearon

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

 You are a survivor, you can heal, and you can trust that with the power and grace of Jesus Christ, you will overcome and conquer. -Patrick Kearon

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

 Those who abuse and who seek to hide their grievous sins may get away with it for a time. But the Lord, who sees all, knows the deeds and the thoughts and intents of the heart. He is a God of justice, and His divine justice will be served. -Patrick Kearon

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

 No one, in any country or culture, is ever "asking for" aggression or violence from someone else in authority or by someone who is bigger and stronger. -Patrick Kearon

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

 Our merciful Savior, victorious over darkness and depravity, has power to right all wrongs, a life-giving truth for those wronged by others. -Patrick Kearon

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

 You are not defined by these terrible things that have been done to you. -Patrick Kearon

G.C. Droplts April 2022 -He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

 Whatever has happened to you, He is not ashamed of you or disappointed in you. He loves you in a way you have yet to discover. -Patrick Kearon

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

 God does not now see, nor has He ever seen, you as someone to be despised. -Patrick Kearon

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

 You are not less worthy or less valuable or less loved as a human being, or as a daughter or son of God, because of what someone else has done to you. -Patrick Kearon

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

 The abuse was not, is not, and never will be your fault, no matter what the abuser or anyone else may have said to the contrary. -Patrick Kearon

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

 Jesus has overcome the abuses of this world to give you power to not only survive but one day, through Him, to overcome and even conquer--to completely rise above the pain, the misery, the anguish, and see them replaced by peace. -Patrick Kearon

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

 The answer is yes. You can survive. -Patrick Kearon

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -The Church Is on Course

 We simply desire to do that which needs to be done, when it needs to be done. -Gordon B. Hinckley

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -The Church Is on Course

 Regardless of the circumstances, the work goes forward in an orderly and wonderful way. -Gordon B. Hinckley

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -"He Maketh Me to Lie Down in Green Pastures"

 Through the gospel, hatred can turn into love, pride into humility, wickedness into righteousness, sorrow into happiness, and fear into peace. -Tai Kwok Yuen

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -"He Maketh Me to Lie Down in Green Pastures"

 Sometimes adversity may seem so overwhelming that we feel powerless to continue. If we appeal for help with humility and faith, our Heavenly Father will provide a way to lovingly help us through. -Tai Kwok Yuen

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -"He Maketh Me to Lie Down in Green Pastures"

 Ofttimes we become anxious and fearful as we confront the complexities of life. If we seek divine guidance and follow the gospel path, we will be led to our final destination. -Tai Kwok Yuen

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Fear Not: Believe Only!

 You are stronger than you think. -Jeffrey R. Holland

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Fear Not: Believe Only!

 In a world that so desperately needs all the light it can get, please do not minimize the eternal light God put in your soul before this world was. -Jeffrey R. Holland

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Fear Not: Believe Only!

 Yes, we might sometimes want to run away from where we are, but we certainly should never run away from who we are--children of the living God who loves us, who is always ready to forgive us, and who will never ever forsake us. -Jeffrey R. Holland

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Fear Not: Believe Only!

 Begin your search for happiness by embracing the bounty we have already received from the giver of every good gift. -Jeffrey R. Holland

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Building Your Tabernacle

 Be strong--in the faith by which you walk. -Gordon B. Hinckley

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Building Your Tabernacle

 Be strong with the strength of simple honesty. Gordon B. Hinckley 

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Building Your Tabernacle

 Be strong in the quality of mercy. -Gordon B. Hinckley

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Building Your Tabernacle

 Be strong--in standing for the right. -Gordon B. Hinckley

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Building your Tabernacle

 Be strong--be strong in the discipline of self. -Gordon B. Hinckley

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -Cat's Cradle of Kindness

 We may not know what contribution our small thread makes to the great tapestry. We may not understand the pattern that our lives make as they intersect, connect, separate, and intersect again, but God does. -Chieko N. Okazaki

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -Cat's Cradle of Kindness

 Weave beautifully your small thread in the grand tapestry. -Chieko N. Okazaki (quoting Gordon B. Hinckley)

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Steady in the Storms

 When the storms in life come, you can be steady because you are standing on the rock of your faith in Jesus Christ. -Henry B. Eyring

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Steady in the Storms

 Our natures must be changed to become as a child to gain the strength we must have to stand steady and at peace in times of peril. -Henry B. Eyring

April 2022 -Steady in the Storms

 We want with all our hearts not to shrink but rather to look up at Him, see Him smile, and hear Him say, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." -Henry B. Eyring

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -The Priesthood in Action

 Let us never despair, for this is the work of the Lord in which we are engaged. -Thomas S. Monson

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -The Priesthood in Action

 The door of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. -Thomas S. Monson

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -I Know in Whom I Have Trusted

 Any call, any service, in our Lord's cause sanctifies us. Whether it is performed in the glare of the public eye or in a quiet corner known only to God is of no consequence. What matters is that we do serve. -D. Todd Christofferson

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Ladder of Faith

 May we plant the seeds of faith deep in our hearts. -Larry S. Kacher

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Ladder of Faith

 Even when our faith is weak, the Lord's hand will always be stretched out. -Larry S. Kacher

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Ladder of Faith

 Unbelief blocks our ability to see miracles, whereas a mindset of faith in the Savior unlocks the powers of heaven. -Larry S. Kacher

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Ladder of Faith

 Faith is not by chance, but by choice. -Larry S. Kacher (quoting Neil L. Andersen)

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Ladder of Faith

 Part of life's purpose is to allow these potential stumbling blocks to become stepping stones as we climb what I call the "ladder of faith"--a ladder because it suggests that faith is not static. It can go up or down according to the choices we make. -Larry S. Kacher

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Ladder of Faith

 There is a simplicity on the other side of life's complexities as we remain "[steadfast] in Christ, having perfect brightness of hope." -Larry S. Kacher

G.C. Droplets April 2022 -Ladder of Faith

 Our faith in Him can and will guide us through the complexities of life. -Larry S. Kacher

G.C. Droplets October 1992 -Nobody Said That It Would Be Easy

 Our challenges may be physical, spiritual, economic, or emotional, but if we will treat them as opportunites and stepping-stones in our progress, rather than barriers and stumbling blocks, our lives and growth will be wonderful. -John B. Dickson

G.C. Droplets April 1993 -"Whom the Lord Calls, the Lord Qualifies"

 I know that when we are on the Lord's errand, he will be with us, he will strengthen us, he will build our capacities. -Neil L. Andersen