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(4/08/03)
"In time and when our hearts are full and we know not that for which we
should pray, the Spirit will make intercession for us even without the words.
(See Romans 8:26.) Our
feelings, our desires are heard through our prayers." — Ardeth Greene Kapp, "The Joy of the
Journey," [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1992], p. 127
(4/09/03)
"Perhaps we would do well to involve ourselves in praying more quietly and
continually. Strength, power, and discipline are rewards for communicating with
God on a continuing personal and private basis. Quietly we can pray for the
patience to have our secret prayers answered. Sometimes we fail to recognize
answered prayers because we are expecting more than quiet answers." — Marvin J. Ashton, "The Measure of Our
Hearts," [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1991], p. 106
(4/10/03)
"Continuing to speak of strategic things, we must have the Spirit with us,
so that the Holy Ghost can prompt us to pray for that which is right. Nephi
advised us that the Spirit 'teacheth a man to pray.' (2 Nephi 32:8.) There is,
therefore, a definite connection between our righteousness and our capacity to
draw upon the Spirit so that we will ask for what we should ask for. The Lord
told Joseph Smith in 1831, 'And if ye are purified and cleansed from all sin, ye
shall ask whatsoever you will in the name of Jesus, and it shall be done. But
know this, it shall be given you what you shall ask....' (D&C 50:29-30)"
— Neal A. Maxwell, "What Should We
Pray For?" "Prayer," [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1977], p.
44
(4/11/03)
"The great tragedy of life is that, loving us and having paid that awful
price of suffering, in the moment when He is now prepared to reach down and help
us we won't let Him. We look down instead of up, accepting the adversary's
promptings that we must not pray; we cannot pray; we are not worthy to pray.
But, says Nephi in response to that, 'I say to you that ye must pray always, and
not faint.'" — Truman G. Madsen,
"The Radiant Life," [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1994], p. 44
(4/12/03)
"Without our individual refining, therefore, life would become merely a
pass-through, audited course--not a course for credit. Only in the latter
arrangement can our experiences and our performances be sanctified for our own
everlasting good (see 2 Nephi
32:9). Mortality therefore is not a convenient, suburban, drive-around
beltway with a view. Instead it passes slowly through life's inner city. Daily
it involves real perspiration, real perplexity, real choosing, real
suffering--and real refining!" — Neal
A. Maxwell, "If Thou Endure It Well," [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft,
1996], p. 8