Work
Enduring and Trusting to the End
“It is possible to reach your goals if you work hard, keep the right perspective, and use your challenges as opportunities to grow and develop.”
Adding Stars to Your Life’s Sky
Individually and collectively our destiny lies in the ability to connect the points of light in our lives so that we can see the broad patterns of eternity.
Tomorrow Is Today
Today, as you look to the future—as your future “commences,” if you will—the words of an often-quoted Chinese proverb are worth taking seriously: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
He Cares More About the Shoulder Than About the Wheel
He who is omnipotent really does not need us to move the wheel or to build anything for Him. It is not His ultimate objective to cover the world with chapels and temples. That is a means to His end, and I believe we can all easily quote that end, His ultimate objective: “For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” I believe that He cares more about the shoulder than about the wheel—that wheel is how we are moved to come home to Him. The wheel, the work, is a blessing to us. This is important. The work is a blessing.
The Work Ahead
Practice makes perfect, but work is more than mere practice. Work opens us to revelation and spiritual gifts.
Faith and Works in a Secular World
Act upon what you know to be true and your righteous works will perfect your faith. Your lives will be full and wonderful.
The Blessing of Work
Work is an eternal principle. Whom do you know who has all the riches of the earth and more and yet is continually working? Our Heavenly Father! He is a worker. Our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ have shown us by Their examples and teachings that work is important in heaven and on earth.
Just Do What Needs to Be Done
Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley advises recent graduates to take action in all parts of their lives by just doing what needs to be done.
The Lord Has a Work for You to Do
Today, as one of the Lord’s apostles, I charge you to prepare spiritually and in every other way to be prepared for the important work ahead for you to do.
These Noble Pioneers
Gordon B. Hinckley speaks of the noble pioneers. The pioneers were people of great faith, of tremendous loyalty, and of unbending integrity.
Lessons That Have Helped Me
"This is your time to prepare, to develop character, to increase your faith. I have great confidence in you and your ability to figure out the future."
On Giving and Getting
In life's constant opportunities for giving and getting, let us be more concerned with giving. Nothing worth getting comes without effort and sacrifice.
A Law of Increasing Returns
Delayed blessings will build your faith in God to work, and wait, for him. The scriptures aren’t demeaning when they command, “Wait upon the Lord.” That means both service and patience. And that will build your faith.
Motivations
God did not go to the trouble of creating the earth and creating us in his own image for us to fail. Our motivations will determine our life's success.
Diligence
We must not be afraid of honest, hard work. Elder Longden warns of the entitlement mentality latent in certain prevailing attitudes.
Work–Work Always
From the days of Adam, we have been commanded to work for what we need and want. Nothing worthwhile comes without constant and hard work.
Welfare
The inspired welfare program of the Church is founded upon the eternal gospel principles of unity, charity, and hard work.
