Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the sun or moon; whether he kneels before wood and stone images, or prays in secret to his Heavenly Father, he is satisfying an inborn urge.
Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.
To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.
Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands.
We are on the whole an idolatrous people.
Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors...
If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls.
Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!
Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it...
Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God’s gift of forgiveness.
The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different.
Home: The place to save society.
Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects...
And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?
Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.
Why is it that some young folks are almost overly conscientious in their school work, even to neglecting their Church responsibilities, when the spiritual should have priority in the study time of every person if preference must be given? However, there is time for fulfilling every need.
It is through repentance that the Lord Jesus Christ can work his healing miracle, infusing us with strength when we are weak, health when we are sick, hope when we are downhearted, love when we feel empty, and understanding when we search for truth.
The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.
Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.