Patriarchal Blessings Quotes

• Your patriarchal blessing is your passport to peace in this life. It is a Liahona of light to guide you unerringly to your heavenly home.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Blessing, Light

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• We may not know when or how the Lord's answers will be given, but in His time and His way, I testify, His answers will come. For some answers we may have to wait until the hereafter. This may be true for some promises in our patriarchal blessings and for some blessings for family members. Let us not give up on the Lord. His blessings are eternal, not temporary.

  Robert D. Hales

  Giving Up, Blessing, Waiting

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• None of us knows the wisdom of the Lord. We do not know in advance exactly how He would get us from where we are to where we need to be, but He does offer us broad outlines in our patriarchal blessings. We encounter many bumps, bends, and forks in the road of life that leads to the eternities.

  James E. Faust

  Blessing, Lds, Encounters

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• To find the gifts we have been given, we must pray and fast. Often Patriarchal blessings tell us the gifts we have received and declare the promise of gifts we can receive if we seek after them. I urge you each to discover your gifts and to seek after those that will bring direction to your life's work and that will further the work of heaven.

  Robert D. Hales

  Blessing, Heaven, Over You

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• Let us not give up on the Lord. His blessings are eternal, not temporary.

  Robert D. Hales

  Giving Up, Blessing, Lord

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• My dear young friends, I speak to you as one who stands on the edge of eternity. From that perspective, I see you as the choicest spirits ever placed on the earth. The promises in your generation's patriarchal blessings, if you are faithful, seem to exceed the promises in Sister Faust's blessing and in mine. ...I want you to know that I believe in you. I believe you can be in the world but not of the world.

  James E. Faust

  Believe, Blessing, Our Generation

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• my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah

  Mitch Albom

  Bible, Book, Way

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• Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Book, Blessing, Possibility

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• To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit of the occasion? Do you in quiet moments ponder it? Does Karl G.Maeser's phrase, "paragraphs from the book of our possibilities" rest upon you with a sense of mission so that, as President Heber J.Grant exemplified, "you "dream nobly and manfully" and prepare ceaselessly? Do you ever think of Heber C.Kimball's faith that you can "write your own patriarchal blessing" under inspiration, for, saith the Lord, "No good thing will I withhold...

  Truman G. Madsen

  Dream, Book, Inspiration

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