Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

-Marianne Williamson
A Return to Love:  Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

"Frequently it is not easy to face up to that which is expected of us.  Many think they cannot do it.  We need a little more faith.  We should know that the Lord will not give us commandments beyond our power to observe.  He will not ask us to do things for which we lack the capacity.  Our problem lies in our fears and in our appetites."

-Gordon B. Hinckley

"Square your shoulders and you will find that the path you say you can't walk, you walk.  The load you say you can't bear, you bear, and the sorrow you say you can't handle, you handle.  You are stronger than you think you are."

Jeffrey R. Holland
Atlanta Georgia Mission Conference, April 2016

"It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is.  It all works out.  Don't worry.  I say that to myself every morning.  It will all work out.  If you do your best, it will all work out.  Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future.  The Lord will not forsake us.  He will not forsake us."

-Gordon B. Hinkley

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

-Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

"I believe in Christ as I believe in the sun at noonday.  Not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else."

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Often when we pray for help with a significant matter, Heavenly Father will give us gentle promptings that require us to think, exercise faith, work, at times struggle, then act.  It is a step-by-step process that enables us to discern inspired answers."

Richard G. Scott
"How to Pray and Seek Answers", New Era 2012

"I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, "Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown."  And he replied, "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God.  That shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way."

-Minnie Louise Haskins
prose introduction to "God Know," The Desert (self-published, 1908)

(I got this quote from a BYU speech given by Thomas S. Monson, November 13, 2007)

"Instead of fearing the future, exercise the faith that will allow you to lay claim to the promises of the Lord."

Michael T. Ringwood
Ensign, January 2013, 57