Father forgive us, for we do not what we know.
As you work with your associates to help them with their faith, you will save them and also yourselves.
It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.
Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.
The religion of which you are a part is 7 days a week. It isn’t just Sunday, it isn’t the block plan, it isn’t just 3 hours in church, it isn’t just the time you spend in Seminary – it’s all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Within your sphere of responsibility you have as serious an obligation as do I within my sphere of responsibility. Each of us should be determined to build the kingdom of God on the earth and to further the work of righteousness.
Strength to do battle begins with enlisting the strength of God.
There are some men who, in a spirit of arrogance, think they are superior to women. They do not seem to realize that they would not exist but for the mother who gave them birth. When they assert their superiority they demean her.
I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.
Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.
Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.
Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.
I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.
There are others whose lives are blessed when a missionary serves, such as the members of his family who support him, pray for him, and try to live worthy of him.
I don’t know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.
For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.
Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.
Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.
There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.
Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.