Sheri Dew Quotes

#1. If Life were easy, it would not be hard

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#2. It is possible to be clean in a dirty world.

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#3. True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

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#4. Challenges that tax our faith are usually opportunities to stretch and strengthen our faith by finding out if we really believe the Lord will help us.

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#5. If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.

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#6. There is a direct relationship between our personal experience with the Lord and how we see ourselves. The closer we grow to him, the more clear and complete becomes our vision of who we are, who we have always been, and who we may become.

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#7. We're not alone
at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God.

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#8. Do you think there is any chance the Lord would have inspired his prophets to prophesy about us, only to then take a chance on the outcome of the latter days by sending men and women he couldn't count on? There is no chance - zero chance - He would have done that.

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#9. I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty
guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard
but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and strength, the power and mercy it affords us.

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#10. After explainging that the Relief Society is one of the oldest and largest women's organizations in the world, he said: People wonder what we do for our women. I will tell you what we do; we get out of their way and look with wonder at what they are accomplishing.

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#11. The compelling truth of the Restoration is that the heavens are open. This Church is a Church of revelation. Our challenge is not one in getting the Lord to speak to us. Our challenge is learning to hear what He has to say.

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#12. The healing power of charity, bestowed by our Father and made possible by the Atonement of Jesus Christ, can make it virtually impossible for us even to feel emotions common to the natural man.

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#13. There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

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#14. Happily, though we must each walk through life on our own, we don't have to do it alone.

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#15. Satan is a "roaring lion, [who] walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." And he will devour us unless we "put on the whole armour [or power] of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." (See 1 Peter 5 and Ephesians 6)

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#16. Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other? ... Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225

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#17. The last days are not for the faint of heart or the spiritually out of shape.

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#18. None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.

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#19. Faith is a principle of action. It is our willingness to believe in the Savior that unleashes His power in our lives. Faith is not a bulwark against tribulation, but an assurance that the Lord is overseeing all.

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#20. Let's face it: Today silly women mired in the sophistries and seductions of the world, and haughty women obsessed with themselves, abound. Regrettably, many women succumb to the temptation to judge, gossip, and undermine one another.

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#21. Am I the woman I think I am, the woman I want to be? More importantly, am I the woman the Savior needs me to be?

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#22. I can't imagine pain greater than stepping across the veil and realizing I had not done what I came here to do - or realizing that I had given up my life to little or nothing, only then to find that it was gone. p 3

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#23. Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.

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#24. It is simply not for us to judge each other. The Lord has reserved that right for Himself, because only He knows our hearts and understands the varying circumstances and complexities of our lives.

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#25. Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

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#26. Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.

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#27. I invite you to consider anew what you know and what you have; what you are here for and where you are going; and how you are going to do what you have come here to do. p 13

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#28. We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.

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#29. The responsibilities, roles, and divinely endowed gifts of men and women differ in nature but not in quality, significance, or degree of importance, impact, or influence. Latter-day Saint doctrine places women equal to, and yet distinct and different from, men.

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#30. We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.

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