Sheri Dew Quotes

#1. 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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#2. There is nothing this confused world needs more, nothing that inspires a greater sense of well-being, nothing that has greater power to strengthen families than the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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#3. Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.

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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. The most effective way to share the gospel is to live it. When we live like disciples of Christ should live, when we aren't just good but happy to be good, others will be drawn to us.

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#7. Sisters, we as women are not diminished by priesthood power - we are magnified by it. I know this is true, for I have experienced it again and again.

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#8. 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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#9. Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.

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#10. The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive the Holy Ghost, obtain personal revelation, and be endowed in the temple, from which we emerge 'armed' with power.

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#11. In this world, the only true joy comes from the gospel - the joy that radiates from the Atonement and from ordinances that transcend the veil, and from the Comforter that salves our souls.

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#12. It is easier to motivate people to do something difficult than something easy.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball game between the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the Tar Heels.

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

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

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#19. 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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#20. Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.

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#21. While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups and downs of mortality alone, we're doing it all wrong. Mortality is a test, but it is an open book test. We have access not only to the divine text but to Him who authored it.

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#22. Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.

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#23. No amount of time in front of the mirror will make you as attractive as having the Holy Ghost with you.

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#24. The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

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#25. I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.

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#26. I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.

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#27. I have 17 nieces and nephews, who are a pure delight. We have hiked and biked and fasted and prayed together.

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#28. No 11-year-old girl wants to be 5-10. I always felt big and unattractive.

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#29. As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue.

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#30. There isn't anyone who wants to see me married more than I do.

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#31. If you are in a position to influence someone, you are a leader.

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#32. We were all born to lead.

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#33. Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his banishment into eternal exile after Michael led the hosts of heaven, comprised of valiant men and women united in the cause of Christ, against him.

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#34. Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

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#35. Regardless of your marital status, your age, or the language you speak, you are a beloved spirit daughter of Heavenly Father who is destined to play a critical part in the onward movement of the gospel kingdom.

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#36. 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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#37. God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world.

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#38. The Lord has set no limits on what He is willing to teach us and give us. We are the only ones who set limits
through our neglect our disobedience or ignorance. We are in large measure the ones who determine what we will learn and experience in mortality, and what we will receive eternally.

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#39. I was a friend during school time, but not much after that. By the time I got to BYU, I was a social mess, an absolute misfit. There is not a shyer, more pathetic kid who stepped on that BYU campus than me.

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#40. 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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#41. Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

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#42. The Savior empowers us with His grace, not because we've earned it, but because He loves us perfectly.

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#43. My mother made me take piano lessons, and because I am her oldest and she had not yet been worn down by the task of prodding five children to practice every day, she kept me practicing despite my whining.

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#44. Being steadfast and immovable with our heels in tar on the Lord's side of the line is the only strategy that works long-term against Lucifer.

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#45. The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about people. It's about leaving the ninety and nine and going into the wilderness after those who are lost. It's about bearing one another's burdens, with the ultimate burden anyone can bear being walking through this life without light.

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#46. Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each other, but enough different that we would need to unite our strengths and stewardships to create a whole.

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#47. It is no accident that faith in Jesus Christ - not only believing in Him but believing Him - is the first principle of the gospel.

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#48. As daughters of our Heavenly Father, and as daughters of Eve, we are all mothers and we have always been mothers. And we each have the responsibility to love and help lead the rising generation.

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#49. I always felt big and unattractive.

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#50. Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.

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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. Our responsibility is to learn to draw upon the power of the Atonement. Otherwise, we walk through mortality relying solely on our own strength.

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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. By virtue of who we are, what we know, the promises we made to our Heavenly Father, and the fact that we are living now and where we are living, I absolutely think we were all born to lead.

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#58. No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose.

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#59. 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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#60. No woman who understands the gospel would ever think that any other work is more important or would ever say, "I am just a mother," for mothers heal the souls of men.

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#61. The Holy Ghost is the minister and messenger of the Father and the Son, and He testifies of both Their glorious, global reality and Their connection to us personally.

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#62. Everything that's important - you can take with you.

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#63. I had a lot of friends who were boys. I played ball with them, but we didn't date. They didn't ask me that much because I wasn't cute enough or because I didn't drink or party.

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#64. The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years will absolutely determine whether you pivot towards the world or towards the Lord.

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#65. The Lord needed the strength of the women of this Church as the seeds of the Restoration were planted and nourished.

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#66. We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard.

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#67. It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

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#68. The Savior isn't our last chance; He is our only chance. Our only chance to overcome self-doubt and catch a vision of who we may become. Our only chance to repent and have our sins washed clean.

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#69. There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

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#70. Most significantly, the fullness of the priesthood contained in the highest ordinances of the house of the Lord can be received only by a man and woman together.

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#71. These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly endless. You are running the anchor leg of the relay because you were born to lead. You were born for glory.

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

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

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#74. Look to the Lord and not to the world for your ideas and ideals about men and women.

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#75. The gospel of Jesus Christ is for everyone. We are all significant parts of the whole. I never think of myself as single; I think of myself as Sheri, a member of the Lord's Church.

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#76. 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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#77. As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains.

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#78. If we don't do as well as we know how and we are prepared to do, it'll be largely because we act and make choices as though we're going to stay here, as though this life is all there is, when that is not the case.

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#79. He knows of our anguish, and He is there for us. Like the Good Samaritan in His parable, when He finds us wounded at the wayside, He binds up our wounds and cares for us (see Luke 10:34). Brothers and sisters, the healing power of His Atonement is for you, for us, for all.

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#80. My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.

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

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#83. I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.

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#84. 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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#85. Relief Society can help us turn away from the world, for its express purpose is to help sisters and their families come unto Christ.

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#86. Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate.

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#87. 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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#88. Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.

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#89. No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she is.

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#90. Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.

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#91. The only way that we may overcome the world is by coming unto Christ. And coming to Christ means walking away from the world.

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#92. For reasons known to the Lord, some women are required to wait to have children. This delay is not easy for any righteous woman. But the Lord's timetable for each of us does not negate our nature.

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#93. I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.

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#94. 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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#95. By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

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#96. Its not living the gospel thats hard. Its life thats hard ... How often do we make the mistake of talking to our youth about how hard it is ... Shouldn't we instead be focusing on the doctrine of joy ... ? p 106

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#97. We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

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#98. 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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#99. The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.

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#100. Our challenge is not getting the Lord to speak to us; our challenge is
understanding what He has to say.

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