Submit

"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child,submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."

-Mosiah 3:19

Adversity

"Into each of our lives come golden moments of adversity. This painful friend breaks our hearts, drops us to our knees, and makes us realize we are nothing without our Lord and Savior. This friend makes us plead all the night long for reassurance and into the next day and sometimes for weeks and months. But, ultimately, just as surely as the day follows the night, as we remain true and faithful, this strange friend, adversity, leads us straight into the outstretched arms of the Savior. I have tried to understand why we must experience tribulation before we can experience the ultimate communication. It seems there is an intense concentration which must be obtained before our pleadings reach our Father in Heaven and, perhaps even more importantly, before He can get through to us. Sometimes we must be straining very hard to hear the still small voice. Before we can be taught thingshidden from the world, we must be on a spiritual frequency which is out of this world. Adversity can help fine-tune this frequency." 

-Glenn L. Pace, “Spiritual Revival,” Ensign, Nov 1992, 11 

Love of God

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?"

"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us."

"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,"

"Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

-Romans 8:35,37-39

Who can be against us?

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us?"

-Romans 8:31

For our good

"No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our educatio, to the development of such qualitites as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds us our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called children of God... and it is through sorrow and sufferings, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven."
-Orson F. Whitney, in Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle (Salt Lake City: Desert Book, 1972), 98.

We have to earn it

"How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, "Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certianly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!"
-Neal A. Maxwell, "Lest Ye Be Wearied and Faint in Your Minds," Ensign, May 1991, 88.

God cannot desert us

"No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, [God] will never desert us. He never has, and He never will. He cannot do it. It is not His character. He is an unchangeable being; the same yesterday, the same today, and He will be the same throughout the ages to come. We have found that God. We have made Him our friend, by obeying His Gospel; and He will stand by us. We may pass through deep waters; but we shall not be consumed or overwhelmed. We shall emerge from all these trials and difficulties the better and purer for them, if we only trust in our God and keep His commandments."
-George Q. Cannon, in Neal A. Maxwell, If Thou Endure It Well (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996), 121.

Questions to trials

"When you face adversity, you can be led to ask many questions. Some serve a useful purpose; others do not. To ask, Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to suffer this, now? What have I done to cause this? will lead you into blind alleys. It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do? What am I to learn from this experience? What am I to change? Whom am I to help? How can I remember my many blessings in times of trial? Willing sacrifice of deeply held peronal desires in favor of the will of God is very hard to do. Yet, when you pray with real conviction, "Please let me know Thy will" and "Mau Thy will be done," you are in the strongest position to receive the maximum help from your loving Father."
-Richard G. Scott, "Trust in the Lord," Ensign, 16 November 1995.

Weapons

"I can't think of any more powerful weapons than faith and a knowledge of the scriptures in the which are contained the Word of God. One so armoured and one so prepared with those weapons is prepared to go out against the enemy [and] is to be more feared than the enemies of light."
-Harold B. Lee, BYU Speeches of the Year, 9 November 1954

Endure

"My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;"

"And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes."

"Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands."

"Thou art not yet as Job; thy friends do not contend against thee, neither charge thee with transgression, as they did Job."

-Doctrine and Covenants 121:7-11

On death

"Therefore, let your hearts be comforted concerning Zion; for all flesh is in mine hands; be still and know that I am God."

-Doctrine and Covenants 101:16

God before man

"For, behold, you should not have feared man more than God. Although men set at naught the counsels of God, and despise his words-"
"Yet you should have been faithful; and he would have extended his arm and supported you against all the fiery darts of the adversary; and he would have been with you in every time of trouble."
"Behold, thou art Joseph, and thou wast chosen to do the work of the Lord, but because of transgression, if thou art not aware thou wilt fall."
"But remember, God is merciful; therefore, repent of that which thou hast done which is contrary to the commandment which I gave you, and thou art still chosen and art again called to the work;"

-Doctrine and Covenants 3:7-10

Paradise - This is what I want

"And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of those who are righteous are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise, a state of rest, a state of peace, where they shall rest from all their troubles and from all care, and sorrow."
-Alma 40:12

Look and Live

"Oh my son, do not let us be slothful because of the easiness of the way; for so was it with our fathers; for so was it prepared for them, that if they would look they might live; even so it is with us.  The was is prepared, and if we will look we may live forever."

-Alma the younger, Alma 37:46

Women

*sigh* I hate being wrong... Looks like it's time for a change... I'll try to be a woman...

"You were not created to be the same as men.  Your natural attributes, affections, and personalities are entirely different from those of a man.  They consist of faithfulness, benevolence, kindness, and charity.  They give you the personality of a woman.  They also balance the more aggressive and competitive nature of a man.

"The business world is competitive and sometimes ruthless.  We do not doubt that women have both the brainpower and the skills - and in some instances superior abilities -  to compete with men.  But by competing they must, of necessity, become aggressive and competitive.  This their godly attributes are diminished and they acquire a quality of sameness with man.

"The conventional wisdom of the day would have you be equal with men.  We say, we would not have you descend to that level.  More often than not the demand for equality means the destruction of the inspired arrangement that God has decreed for man, woman, and the family.  Equality should not be confused with equivalence. 

"It is well to remember the inspired counsel of President David O. McKay: 'Woe to that home where the mother abandons her holy mission or neglects the divine instruction, influence, and example - while she bows, a devotee at the shrine of social pleasure; or neglects the essential duties of her own household, in her enthusiasm to promote public reform.' (Conference Report, October 1907, p. 63)"

-President Ezra Taft Benson, Women, Deseret Book, 1980, p. 71

"May you understand the great potential for good you inherited from your Heavenly home.  You, as women, must nourish your gentleness, your nurturing nature, your innate spirituality and sensitivity, and your bright minds.  Celebrate the fact that girls are different than boys. Be thankful for the passion you have in God's grand plan. And always remember what President Hinkley said: 'Woman is God's supreme creation.  Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the land, after vegetation and animal life had been created; and after man had been placed on the earth, was woman created; and only then was the work pronounced complete and good.'"

-Northridge 7th ward Young Woman's Camp 2006

"The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." 
-Margaret Nadauld

Missionaries

"Give me a young man who has kept himself morally clean and has faithfully attended his Church meetings.  Give me a young man who has magnified his priesthood and earned his Duty to God Award and is an Eagle Scout.  Give me a young man who is a seminary graduate and has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon.  Give me such a young man and I will give you a young man who can perform miracles for the Lord in the mission field and throughout his life."

-President Ezra Taft Benson, Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p.197.