“The winds of tribulation blow out some men's candles of commitment.(Maxwell) Our job in recovery is to protect our candle from those winds.”

“Our lives are like a candle in the wind.”

“People respond to struggles in different ways. Some feel defeated and beaten down by the burdens they are called to bear. Many begin to blame others for their difficulties and defeats, and they fail to follow the counsel of the Lord. It is a natural tendency to seek the easy road on life’s journey and to become discouraged, filled with doubt, and even depressed when facing life’s struggles.Elder Neal A. Maxwell, then an Assistant to the Twelve, distinguished the difference in responses to difficulties: ‘The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men’s candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of [others]’.”

“Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.”

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

“He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.”