"You get what you qualify for."

So, this last week while I was on vacation we drove up to Gettysburg. It's interesting that it opened my eyes to the complexity of the issue. In the past, I had oversimplified it to good vs. bad, but there was a lot at stake for both sides, and a lot of loss. I now realize that it would have been very difficult for the people of the South, whether they were slaveholders or not. The war was not fought over the issue of slavery as much as whether the Southern states had a right to secede from the Union. It was a very interesting experience and I'm glad to have a greater understanding of the conflict and greater empathy towards all who were involved in the war.

"If it can be done, you can do it. It's a matter of choice."

"We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time for one will dispel the other."

"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."

~ Thomas S. Monson

"Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with grateful hand, nor postpone your joys from year to year, so that in whatever place you have been, you may say that you have lived happily."

~ Horace

"Shall I receive good at the hand of God, and shall I not receive evil?"

~ Job 2:10

"I would seek unto God, and unto God I would commit my cause."

~ Job 5:8

"Happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty."

~ Job 5:17

"It is possible to believe in something and still not live up to it."

"I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

~ Anna Quindlen

"The church that weds itself to the culture of the day will 'be a widow within each succeeding age.'"

~ Neal A. Maxwell

"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."

~ Albert Einstein

"Men want to be tried to see what they are made of."

~ Col. Joseph Stockton

"There is a point beyond which human endurance and courage cannot go."

~ "Capt. James Johnson

"We do not know until tried what we are capable of."

~ Sarah Broadhead, Gettysburg, July 7, 1863

"Ye advocates of war, come here and look, and answer what compensation is there for this carnival of death."