John Bytheway Quotes

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this?

don't do things that kill you.

Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!

The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.

If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.

Some people will dream big dreams while others will wake up and do them.

The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.

We don’t LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are

Say no to asphalt!

And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did!

Say no to parking lots!

If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters!

If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.

Go and do, don't sit and stew.

The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)

When people point fingers at someone else, they should remember that three fingers are pointing back at them.

Be prepared. *smacks chest*

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

A man with experience is never at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet.”4

What will he [Satan] do first? Prevent spirits from coming to earth. How will he do this? He'll do all in his power to promote abortion. He'll convince people to have no children. He will raise fears about over population and encourage governments to make laws that limit the number of children couples can have. He'll do whatever he can to keep those spirits form coming!

Seriously--you've got TWENTY thingamabobs AND a snarfblat!

Our hope is that the Lord will intervene in our lives, but if not, we will discover whether our faith is real, or only something we hold onto when it appears to be working for our benefit.

Legislatures and parliaments can get together and pretend to change God's laws, but it has no effect on eternal truth.

#embrace your hard times. "God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times." ~John Bytheway #QuotesForLife

I've noticed that there is danger in spending all this time writing about those "publicans and sinners" over there in the great and spacious building. If our spot near the tree of life becomes a Rameumptom where we congratulate each other on our chosen-ness and look down on everyone else, then we're occupying nothing more than a branch office of the great and spacious.

If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.

This might be a good time to express a little thought: If you really don’t want to marry someone, that’s probably a good sign that you shouldn’t. (You might want to jot that one down somewhere.)

What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!

Righteousness brings happiness. Wickedness never does. If there were no God, no plan, no law, and no divine order, there would be no reason wickedness would not bring happiness. But it never does. The history of civilization is a testament that hedonism, perversion, brutality, corruption, and wickedness sow seeds of misery, sorrow, and destruction. It is not a quirk of evolution. It is evidence of a divinely appointed plan.12

marry someone you’re attracted to inside and out, marry your best friend, and marry someone you love.

I think some of the most attractive traits a person can have are a happy disposition, a good dose of appropriate self-confidence, and a sense of purpose.

Popularity ends on Yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

Making weak things strong is the Savior's specialty, and the way we receive such individual help is through humility and a willingness to come unto Christ.

Someone with whom you can spend the whole day and never feel bored or lonely. Someone who is the first person you want to tell when something exciting happens to you. Someone you really like.

love, and I wanted to know what it felt like. I didn’t want Hollywood’s definition; I wanted one I could trust. Some of my questions included: Can you choose to fall in love with someone? Is falling in love a spiritual feeling?

I answered, “Because you want them. In the eternal scheme of things that will be of inestimable and eternal value.” The Lord has said that he “will judge all men according to their works; according to the desire of their hearts” (D&C 137:9).

Aside from the giddy high school feelings, real love makes you: Feel a desire to achieve Feel inspired to do your best Want to make the most of yourself Think your noblest thoughts Aspire to your finest deeds Wish you were better than you are

It’s important to marry someone you love, but it’s also important to marry someone you like. In other words, you like being together, you like to do the same things, you like each other. You’re friends! Romance may have ups and downs, but friendship endures.

One of the best things I did during my single years was read books and listen to tapes on marriage. (You can’t be too conspicuous, of course.) I learned so much about what makes good marriages work that it changed why I dated, how I dated, and even whom I dated.

And when it comes to relationships, I would spend less money on extravagant dates at nice restaurants and spend more time talking and sharing ideas. I would focus less on trying to find someone and more on trying to become someone. I would be careful with the feelings of others in my words and expressions of affection. I would try not to let breakups break me up. I would never give up on dating, but I would give up on worrying and stewing about it. When people approached my piano with their advice, I would smile and say, “I’m doing my best.

How do you become First in command, when you're second in command? You kill the guy that's first in command!

John Bytheway

but all I did was pray to the Lord and ask for some guidance and direction in connection with the decision that I’d reached. A more perfect thing to have done would have been to counsel with him relative to the decision and get a spiritual confirmation that the conclusion, which I by my agency and faculties had arrived at, was the right one. (“Agency or Inspiration?” New Era, January 1975, p. 40)

Elder James E. Faust expressed a similar feeling this way: “Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness” (Ensign, November 1977, p. 11).

Without this type of intimacy, you may be tempted to look elsewhere for friendship.

I feel confident that the Lord will not leave us alone in making this major decision, and we can expect to be guided, even if we don’t realize it at the time.

a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. . . . Always have something ahead of you to ‘look forward to’—to work for and hope for

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9).

Doctrine and Covenants 111:11: “Therefore, be ye as wise as serpents and yet without sin; and I will order all things for your good, as fast as ye are able to receive them.

Sometimes we have 2 Nephi 2:25 “joy” days, and sometimes we have Moses 6:48 “misery and woe” days.

inch by inch will make it cinch ,yard by yard will make it hard.

Happiness is an inside job.