Feeling the Influence of the Spirit

 Choose‍ to put yourself in a position to have experiences with the Spirit of God through prayer, in scripture study, at Church meetings, in your home, and through wholesome interactions with others. When you feel the influence of the Spirit, you are beginning to be cleansed and strengthened. The light is being turned on, and where that light shines, the darkness of evil cannot remain.

Elder Robert D. Hales - April 2006 General Conference "To Act for Ourselves; the Gift and Blessings of Agency"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/04/to-act-for-ourselves-the-gift-and-blessings-of-agency?lang=eng

Finding Our Way again

Here the Savior tells of the effort of a shepherd searching for his lost sheep, of a woman searching for a lost coin, and of the welcome received by the prodigal son returning home. Why did Jesus teach these parables? He wanted us to know that none of us will ever be so lost that we cannot find our way again through His Atonement and His teachings.

Elder M. Russell Ballard - April 2012 General Conference "That the Lost May Be Found"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/that-the-lost-may-be-found?lang=eng

Return Us Home

Everyone loses his or her way at some point, to some degree. It is through the promptings of the Holy Ghost‍ that we can be brought safely back onto the right path, and it is the atoning sacrifice of the Savior that can return us home.

Elder M. Russell Ballard - April 2012 General Conference "That the Lost May Be Found"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/that-the-lost-may-be-found?lang=eng

Real Happiness

His commandments are the voice of reality and our protection against self-inflicted pain. The scriptures are the touchstone for measuring correctness and truth, and they are clear that real happiness lies not in denying the justice of God or trying to circumvent the consequences of sin but in repentance and forgiveness‍ through the atoning grace of the Son of God

Elder D. Todd Christofferson - April 2010 General Conference "The Blessing of Scripture
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/the-blessing-of-scripture?lang=eng

Effort on Our Part

We do not need to achieve some minimum level of capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.  But I know that beyond desiring His help, we must exert ourselves, repent, and choose God for Him to be able to act in our lives consistent with justice and moral agency.  My plea is simply to take responsibility and go to work so that there is something for God to help us with.

      Elder D. Todd Christofferson - October 2014 General Conference "Free Forever to Act for themselves"

      https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/10/free-forever-to-act-for-themselves?lang=eng

Prevent Regrets Through By Following Chrst

Many of the deepest regrets of tomorrow can be prevented by following the Savior today. If we have sinned or made mistakes—if we have made choices that we now regret—there is the precious gift of Christ’s Atonement, through which we can be forgiven. We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins.  His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better. 

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf - October 2012 General Conference "Of Regrets and Resolutions"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/of-regrets-and-resolutions?lang=eng

Change of Heart

When we have undergone this mighty change, which is brought about only through faith in Jesus Christ and through the operation of the Spirit upon us, it is as though we have become a new person. Thus, the change is likened to a new birth. Thousands of you have experienced this change. You have forsaken lives of sin, sometimes deep and offensive sin, and through applying the blood of Christ in your lives, have become clean. You have no more disposition to return to your old ways. You are in reality a new person. This is what is meant by a change of heart.

President Ezra Taft Benson - October 1989 Ensign "A Mighty Change of Heart"
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1989/10/a-mighty-change-of-heart?lang=eng