Never make someone have to choose between your ways and the Lord’s ways. And always make sure that you’re making it easier to live God’s commandments for those who are by your side and who are your friends.
As disciples of Jesus Christ we have a responsibility to work together with like-minded believers, to raise our voices for what is right.
The more I live, the more I recognize that the teaching moments in my youth, especially those provided by my parents, have shaped my life and made me who I am. It is impossible to overestimate the influence of parents who understand the hearts of their children.
Through the Savior’s Atonement and by following these basic patterns of faithfulness, we receive “power from on high” to face the challenges of life. We need this divine power today more than ever.
True friends don’t hold us back spiritually or pull us down when we’re trying to rise and progress. True friends protect us. True friends help us be better than we would be on our own.
When young men prepare, bless, and pass the sacrament in worthiness and reverence, they literally follow the example of the Savior at the Last Supper and become like Him.
Let us not give up on the Lord. His blessings are eternal, not temporary.
Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness.
By choosing to be in His kingdom, we separate – not isolate – ourselves from the world.
It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.
We learn to endure to the end by learning to finish our current responsibilities, and we simply continue doing it all of our lives. We cannot expect to learn endurance in our later years if we have developed the habit of quitting when things get difficult now.
As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.
As our understanding of obedience deepens, we recognize the essential role of agency.
To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.
The gift of the Holy Ghost, given to us when we are confirmed, gives us the ability to discern the difference between the giving ways of the kingdom of God and the taking practices of the world.
Oh, how we need general conference! Through conferences our faith is fortified and our testimonies deepened. And when we are converted, we strengthen each other to stand strong amid the fiery darts of these last days.
He set the example for all of us to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father.
When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our total allegiance to the kingdom of God.
We will not fall, we will not fail; for our homes will be founded on Jesus Christ.
Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy.