- Ether 9:3…The Lord warned Omer in a dream to depart out of the land with his family.
- Ether 3:26…If you want to be shown all things by the Lord, you need to believe He can do it, and believe in Him.
- 1 Nephi 1:6-7…Seeing or hearing the Lord causes one to quake and tremble and be overcome
- 1 Nephi 17:47…Nephi was filled with the spirit even to the point of no strength
- Moses 1:9…Seeing a vision causes people to become weak
- “I had seen a vision; I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny it, neither dared I do it; at least I knew that by so doing I would offend God, and come under condemnation.” ( JS—H 1:25.) 20 Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Ezra Taft Benson, (2014),102–13
- Mosiah 3:2…And the things which I shall tell you are made known unto me by an angel from God. And he said unto me: Awake; and I awoke, and behold he stood before me
- “There is one universal rule of planning: You will never be greater than the vision that guides you” Alliance for Non-profit Management. Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 105
- “Vision guides us. It inspires. It leads, even through those tough times when our own personal maps can get jumbled. We have often heard successful people say that when they went through their toughest times, out of money, out of ideas, and out of luck, it was their vision for the future that pulled them through. They stayed true to their vision, and the vision sustained them.” Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 105
- “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” Albert Einstein. Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 117
- “The Rev. F. Washington Jarvis, headmaster emeritus of the Roxbury Latin School, says that true happiness in life comes from a long-term vision of our life. Jarvis writes in his book, With Love and Prayers, “Important, though, as a vision is [regarding career and lifestyle], it is nothing like as important as an overall vision for your whole life. We might call such a vision existential; it has to do with the discovery by you of some meaning and purpose to your whole existence. Inevitably such a vision must entail not only finding meaning in your life but meaning also in your inevitable death.” He goes on to say, “If you want to be happy, you must learn to love: to pay the price of caring for others, of putting the first, of inconveniencing yourself. That is the pathway to happiness.”” Wealth in Families Third Edition (Charles W. Collier) Page 10
- “Anger is an energizing emotion that enhances the sustained attention needed to solve problems and leads to more flexible “big picture” thinking.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 269
- “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie
- “Easy to spot a yellow car when you are always thinking of a yellow car. Easy to spot opportunity when you are always thinking of opportunity. Easy to spot reasons to be mad when you are always thinking of being mad. You become what you constantly think about. Watch yourself.” Seneca
- “What is worse than being blind is being able to see and having no vision.” Helen Keller
- “May the Lord grant us vision and understanding to do those things which will help our members not only spiritually but also temporally. We have resting upon us a very serious obligation. President Joseph F. Smith said that a religion which will not help a man in this life will not likely do much for him in the life to come (see The Truth about Mormonism, Out West magazine, Sept. 1905, 242).” Manual, Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Gordon B Hinckley, Chapter 13, Peace and Contentment through Temporal Self Reliance