Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and it is what will keep you going.
The Atonement of Jesus Christ is rightfully seen as the central fact, the crucial foundation, and the chief doctrine of the plan of salvation, which we are called to teach.
May I say to mothers collectively, in the name of the Lord, you are magnificent. You are doing terrifically well. The very fact that you have been given such a responsibility is everlasting evidence of the trust your Father in Heaven has in you.
God never leaves us alone, never leaves us unaided in the challenges that we face.
Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength.
To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.
The crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty.
Please know that your Father in Heaven loves you and so does His Only Begotten Son. When they speak to you – and They will – it will not be in the wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but it will be with a voice still and small, a voice tender and kind. It will be with the tongue of angels.
You and I won’t ever find ourselves on that cross, but we repeatedly find ourselves at the foot of it. And how we act there will speak volumes about what we think of Christ’s character and His call for us to be His disciples.
Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer. Ask in righteousness and you shall receive. Knock with conviction and it shall be opened unto you.
I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.
In a world of unrest and fear, political turmoil and moral drift, I testify that Jesus is the Christ – that He is the living Bread and living Water – still, yet, and always the great Shield of safety in our lives.
Don’t do anything stupid.
If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey.
We don’t want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.
In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.
Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.
We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.
Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.
The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning of a Christian Life, not the end of it.