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.
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.
Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.
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...