The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.
I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends.
It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.
A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.
We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.
In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.
God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.
How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.
We cannot lead or draw others to Christ unless we stand closer to Him than they do.
Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.
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.