The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.
O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.
Above all, I declare that Jesus Christ is the center of our faith; I testify to you that he lives. He leads his Church today; he hears our prayers when we humbly, earnestly, unceasingly seek to know his will, making this, too, a day of miracles and of revelation.
I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?
The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.
My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.
There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.
To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it.
Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.
Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.
Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.
If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.
Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. We could refer to all the components of personal and family preparedness, not in relation to holocaust or disaster, but in cultivating a life-style that is on a day-to-day basis its own reward.
In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness.
We need to help those we seek to serve, to know for themselves that God not only loves them, but He is ever mindful of them and of their needs.
They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.
We have always understood that the foundations of the family, as an eternal unit, were laid even before this earth was created! Society without basic family life is without foundation and will disintegrate into nothingness.
There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.
Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.