Quotes from Bruce C. Hafen

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

If you have problems in your life, don't assume there is something wrong with you.

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

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

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

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

You must realize that the true desire to express affection can be motivated by things other than true love.... In short, one might simply say: save your kisses--you might need them someday. And when anyof you--men and women--are given entrance to the heart of a trusting young friend, you stand on holy ground. In such a place you must be honest with yourself--and with your friend--about love and the expression of it's symbols.

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 Savior asks us to repent not just to repay him for paying our debt to justice, but also to induce us to undergo the personal development that will purify our very nature. The 'natural man' will remain an enemy to God forever—even after paying for his own sins—unless he also 'becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord.' (Mosiah 3:19.)

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.

knowledge constrained by obedience to God and then fulfilled by the grace of God leads to meaning, sanctification, and eternal joy.

the firmament. / And tho we ne'er may reach it, / we have tried / and in the trying / have learned, perchance / to make an orbit of our own.

Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, one conversation at a time, one threshold crossing at a time.

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