Rules have a way of pushing conscience back...

"Rules are useful...but these must merely mark where the borders of conscience end. Rules have a way of pushing conscience back, and yet further back."

Neal A. Maxwell,
Of One Heart, p. 24, 1975
(Republished in 2006 as The Enoch Letters)

God...placed us here to succeed...

"When, in situations of stress, we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacities perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordained to fail or to be wicked. When we have been weighed and found wanting, let us remember that we were measured before and were found equal to our tasks; and therefore, let us continue but with a more determined discipleship. When we feel overwhelmed, let us recall the assurance that God will not overprogram us; he will not press upon us more than we can bear, D&C 50:40."

Neal A Maxwell, “Meeting the Challenges of Today,” in Devotional Speeches of the Year, Provo: Brigham Young University, 1978, p. 156 as quoted in the Ensign, Feb 1990, 30.