One simply cannot come to a cause like the kingdom of God, with its celestial concepts, and not appreciate and identify with what Ammon said: “Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel.”
If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!
It’s service, not status, that counts.
Education brightens a darkened world.
If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.
If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the world will draw us instead to them! Moreover, the things of the world need not be sinister in order to be diverting and consuming.
The Savior knows what it’s like to die of cancer.
Even the good can become careless without the Lord’s being there to chasten.
It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.
Pray for me to learn quickly what I need to learn.
At times God’s best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life’s school of affliction, graduating with honors.
So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.
A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.
There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.
I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, “My body is my own!” I stand in admiration of women today who resist the “fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!”
Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.
I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.
I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.
If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reason to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned.
We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.