It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.
We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another.
The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage.
I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of the warnings of scripture and the teachings of the prophets which we have had constantly before us.
God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.
Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member’s heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it.
The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.
If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy, and your marriage will go on through eternity.
There cannot be peace where there is not trust; there cannot be freedom where there is not loyalty.
I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a “tightwad,” if you will pardon that expression, or to be a freeloader, or anything of the kind.
I hope we will never again see such a depression. But I am troubled by the huge consumer installment debt which hangs over the people of the nation, including our own people.
God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary.
In very large measure each of us holds the key to the blessings of the Almighty upon us. If we wish the blessing, we must pay the price.
You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.
When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled.
The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.
We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.
Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer. “I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy.”
This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry...
Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure.