a quote that gives me hope

One of my all-time favorite quotes because it brings peace when I'm struggling and hope when I have fear:


"...Everyone in the church who is on the straight and narrow path, who is striving and struggling and desiring to do what is right, though is far from perfect in this life; if you're on that path and pressing forward, and you die, you'll never get off that path. There is no such thing as falling off the straight and narrow path in the life to come, and the reason is that this life is the time that is given to men to prepare for eternity. If you are on the path when death comes...you'll never fall off from it, and for all practical purposes, your calling and election is made sure."

Elder Bruce R. McConkie
"The Probationary Test of Mortality"
(address given to Institute students
at the University of Utah Jan. 10, 1982)