It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.
We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year’s supply. You don’t argue why it cannot be done; you just plan to organize and get it done.
We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.
When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the antithesis of humility.
I am not afraid of death. What I am afraid of is that I will meet the Saviour and He will say, ‘You could have done better’
There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love.
Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
Only when you lift a burden, God will lift your burden. Divine paradox this! The man who staggers and falls because his burden is too great can lighten that burden by taking on the weight of another’s burden. You get by giving, but your part of giving must be given first.
It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That’s our motto.
The nation is built upon the foundation of its homes and the home upon its families.
No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives.
By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.
True repentance does not permit repetition.
We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.
Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.
We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord’s ways from our own narrow view.
Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.
When a defiled man is born again, his habits are changed, his thoughts cleansed, his attitudes regenerated and elevated, his activities put in total order, and everything about him that was dirty, degenerate or reprobate is washed and made clean.
Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.