As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good and the beautiful in the world, or we may choose the trashy, the vulgar, the obscene, which will make us feel as though we’ve been ’wallowing in the mire.
If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.
The greatest spiritual blessing comes from helping another.
Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.
Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man’s course of action.
The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.
The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early.
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence.
The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.
If we would change the world, we must first change people’s thoughts.
There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
To be carnally minded is to be spiritually dead.
The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.
That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don’t have to think.
He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.
Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.
What you think about when you don’t think, shows who you really are.
Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –.
Trust is greater than love.