Henry B. Eyring quote: "Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness."

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would cho...
HENRY B. EYRING

With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our nat...
HENRY B. EYRING

In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn...
HENRY B. EYRING

We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long b...
HENRY B. EYRING

Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortal...
HENRY B. EYRING

It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the ...
HENRY B. EYRING

We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. W...
HENRY B. EYRING

The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in ...
HENRY B. EYRING

For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has un...
HENRY B. EYRING

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and resc...
HENRY B. EYRING

We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to ...
HENRY B. EYRING

Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our...
HENRY B. EYRING

If you reflect often on how His Atonement has changed you, and if you give thanks often, you will fi...
HENRY B. EYRING

Heavenly Father has assigned us to a great variety of stations to strengthen and, when needed, to le...
HENRY B. EYRING

The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without gre...
HENRY B. EYRING

We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or...
HENRY B. EYRING

Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down ...
HENRY B. EYRING

Our feelings of separation from God will diminish as we become more childlike before Him. That is no...
HENRY B. EYRING

Foreseeing the needs of His children, a loving Heavenly Father placed directions and rescuers along ...
HENRY B. EYRING

Discord or jealousy inhibits the ability of the Holy Ghost to teach us and inhibits our ability to r...
HENRY B. EYRING

'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or ...
HENRY B. EYRING

Let us do whatever is required to qualify for the Holy Ghost as our companion and then let us go for...
HENRY B. EYRING

Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement...
HENRY B. EYRING

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisi...
HENRY B. EYRING

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal li...
HENRY B. EYRING

If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailti...
HENRY B. EYRING

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And t...
HENRY B. EYRING

You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to d...
HENRY B. EYRING

The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is...
HENRY B. EYRING

The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work ...
HENRY B. EYRING

Life eternal is to live in unity, in families, with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Eternal...
HENRY B. EYRING

If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great wort...
HENRY B. EYRING

The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God i...
HENRY B. EYRING

The words 'come unto Christ' are an invitation. It is the most important invitation you coul...
HENRY B. EYRING

The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to bec...
HENRY B. EYRING

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to u...
HENRY B. EYRING

The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our he...
HENRY B. EYRING

We were promised that we would have Jehovah, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Redeemer. He would assu...
HENRY B. EYRING

You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wai...
HENRY B. EYRING

The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of chil...
HENRY B. EYRING

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgiv...
HENRY B. EYRING

Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for ...
HENRY B. EYRING

When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my min...
HENRY B. EYRING

Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved...
HENRY B. EYRING

With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject th...
HENRY B. EYRING

When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or whe...
HENRY B. EYRING

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.
HENRY B. EYRING

We know the Lord makes His servants bold. The young boy Joseph who saw God the Father and His Son, J...
HENRY B. EYRING

You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away t...
HENRY B. EYRING

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him,...
HENRY B. EYRING

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities
HENRY B. EYRING

There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend...
HENRY B. EYRING

God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.
HENRY B. EYRING

Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now i...
HENRY B. EYRING

The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of ti...
HENRY B. EYRING

Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was a...
HENRY B. EYRING

When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.
HENRY B. EYRING

Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the ...
HENRY B. EYRING

God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spi...
HENRY B. EYRING

When tragedy strikes, or even when it looms, our families will have the opportunity to look into our...
HENRY B. EYRING

The Holy Ghost has as a major purpose witnessing that Jesus is the Christ. As we plead for help in H...
HENRY B. EYRING

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise yo...
HENRY B. EYRING

Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily fea...
HENRY B. EYRING

Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of Hi...
HENRY B. EYRING

Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually...
HENRY B. EYRING

For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is importa...
HENRY B. EYRING

Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy...
HENRY EYRING

I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in t...
HENRY EYRING

Death is not the end; it is but one more step in a great forward march made possible by the redempti...
HENRY EYRING

Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrar...
HENRY EYRING

For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is importa...
HENRY EYRING

I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's pr...
HENRY EYRING

There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are jus...
HENRY J. EYRING

My prediction is that it will move quite rapidly.
MATT EYRING

Is this a trend that is here to stay? Yes.
MATT EYRING

This cost-and-convenience trend is coming to a head and that's what is driving this trend. My predic...
MATT EYRING

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
HENRY B. ADAMS

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY B. ADAMS

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
HENRY B. ADAMS

The way a man's mind runs is the way he is sure to go.
HENRY B. WILSON

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING

My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING

I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING

I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING

I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING

A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING

I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING

I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.
MEL B

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
MEL B

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be n...
B. TRAVEN

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight ...
B. WILBERFORCE

There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.
B. QUILLIAM

When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
B. CYBRILL

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I...
KATY B

I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the peopl...
KATY B

I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec...
RUTH B

I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ...
RUTH B

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcom...
B. DODGE

I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be ...
B. TRAVEN

Think positively, the way you think will describe you.
ABHIYANDA B.

Be afraid, when you feel always fearless
ABHIYANDA B.

My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B

Don't try hard to explain, but try hard to prove it.
ABHIYANDA B.

We lived in an age where fake is a must.
ABHIYANDA B.

yepp it's ok, i know you dont care at all, but i still have to make you smile, cause i love seeing y...
ABHIYANDA B.

I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'...
MEL B

When Duncan did arrive a half hour later, I hugged him and didn't let go. He seemed a little embarra...
B. ALSTON

In fact, life of the virtual world are the ones who wearing mask.
ABHIYANDA B.

Don't judge me unfriendly, I'm not arrogant, I'm not shy i just like quietness, cause i can nurture ...
ABHIYANDA B.

You're a user that will never access the password to my heart
NATALIA B.

Am I still a hero if the only person I save is
myself?
Am I still a villain if the only pe...
B. DAMANI

Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.

Henry B. Eyring

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