Richard G. Scott Quotes

The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

I'm a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we're going to encounter in our own period of service.

God had to teach me a lot of things.

When you go to college, you're on your own. It's you and God. It's a question of what are you made of and how much is God a part of your life. So when I went off to college, I knew that was going to be the case.

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.

It's okay not to be okay... Sometimes it's hard, to follow your heart but tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, there's nothing wrong with who you are.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our lives—the depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from us—that shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.

As you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.