Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. We become taller in our testimony like we grow in physical stature and hardly know it is happening, because it comes by growth.
There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.
Progression: you can start from where you are.
Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.
In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words “well done” from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father.
Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.