John Bytheway
John Bytheway
afar taught action
The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.
thinking mermaid care
The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)
choices choices-you-make failing
Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.
faithful stronger may
Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.
clever book communication
If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters!
love morning school
If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.
jesus strong temptation
What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!
moving-on dream people
Some people will dream big dreams while others will wake up and do them.
yearbook forever lasts
It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.
daughter wife ishmael
And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did!
country play worry
The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.
live-life way live-life-to-its-fullest
The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.
be-prepared smack prepared
Be prepared. *smacks chest*
grandma looks models
We don’t LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are