13 Quotes by Bruce C. Hafen

Properly understood, then, the scriptures counsel us to be virtuous not because romantic love is bad, but precisely because romantic love is so good. It is not only good; it is pure, precious, even sacred and holy.

We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more.

Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will...

The deep hurt is the mirror image of the deep joy that still awaits you.

In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted most – for good or otherwise. We can indeed have eternal life, if we really want it, so long as we don’t want something else more.

The Savior’s gift of grace to us is not necessarily limited in time to ‘after’ all we can do. We may receive his grace before, during and after the time when we expend our own efforts.

Because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can learn from our experience without being condemned by our experience.

While no other success of ours can compensate for our failures within or outside our homes, there is a success that can compensate when we cannot, after we conscientiously do all we can. That success is the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which can mend what for us is beyond repair.

The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Savior’s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character.