Robert D. Hales Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, all these things shall be for our experience, and our good.

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  God, Jesus, Father

• We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.

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  Father, Heaven, Honor

• It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.

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  Spiritual, Father, Heart

• As I recognized the beauty of the earth, I knew that my Heavenly Father loved me.

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  Spiritual, Father, Earth

• I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from dinner to clear the table. My sister and I would wash and dry the dishes each night at Father's request. If we were not there, Father and Mother would clean the kitchen together.

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  Sister, Mother, Respect

• Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art thou?' Yes! When a spouse dies, a companion will wonder. When financial hardship befalls a family, a father will ask. When children wander from the path, a mother and father will cry out in sorrow. Yes, 'weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.' Then, in the dawn of our increased faith and understanding, we arise and choose to wait upon the Lord, saying, 'Thy will be done.'

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  Mother, Morning, Art

• You and I were among those who used their agency to accept Heavenly Father's plan to come to earth, to have a mortal life, to progress. "We shouted for joy ... to have the opportunity of coming to the earth to receive bodies [for we knew] that we might become, through faithfulness, like unto our Father, God." Now we are here on earth, where opportunities to use our agency abound; for here "there is an opposition in all things." This opposition is essential to the purpose of our lives.

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  Father, Opportunity, Agency

• How we conduct ourselves in this life will determine what we will be in all the eternities to come. To receive the blessings of the sealing that our Heavenly Father has given to us, we have to keep the commandments and conduct ourselves in such a way that our families will want to live with us in the eternities.

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  Life, Father, Blessing

• We are all welcome to come into the waters of baptism. He was baptized to witness to His Father that He would be obedient in keeping His commandments. He was baptized to show us that we should receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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  Father, Water, Baptism

• He set the example for all of us to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father.

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  Father, Humble, Baptism

• There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer. If we will be obedient and if we are diligent, our prayers will be answered, our problems will diminish, our fears will dissipate, light will come upon us, the darkness of despair will be dispersed, and we will be close to the Lord.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Father

• Come walk the path that leads to eternal happiness, joy, and everlasting life in the kingdom of our Heavenly Father.

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  Father, Joy, Eternal Happiness

• In addition to inviting us to hold personal and family scripture study, Heavenly Father wants us to regularly study and apply what we have learned in conference. I testify that those who put their trust in the Lord and heed this counsel in faith will gain great strength to bless themselves and their families for generations to come.

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  Father, Generations, Want

• Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy.

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  Father, Joy, Desire

• I promise you in [Jesus] name that if you pray with a sincere desire to hear your Heavenly Father's voice in the messages of this conference, you will discover that He has spoken to you to help you, to strengthen you, and to lead you home into His presence.

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  Jesus, Father, Home

• Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life

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  Father, Earth, Merit

• Your Heavenly Father needs you. His work, under the direction of our Savior Jesus Christ, needs what you are uniquely prepared to give.

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  Jesus, Father, Giving

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