Have times really changed? Don’t we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don’t we today, as always, need God’s divine protecting care? Don’t we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?
We can’t direct the wind but we can adjust the sail.
I once sacrificed something I love for the God I love even more, and He has never forgotten me for it.
The goal of gospel teaching... is not to ‘pour information’ into the minds of class members... The aim is to inspire the individual to think about, feel about, and then do something about living gospel principles.
In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.
When we are on the Lord’s errand, we are entitled to the Lord’s help. Remember that the Lord will shape the back to bear the burden placed upon it.
As we survey the challenges of life, that which is easy is rarely right. In fact, the course that we should properly follow appears at times impossible, impenetrable, hopeless.
Have we been guilty of declaring, ‘I’ve been thinking about making some course corrections in my life. I plan to take the first step – tomorrow’? With such thinking, tomorrow is forever. Such tomorrows rarely come unless we do something about them today.
There is really no way we can know the heart, the intentions, or the circumstances of someone who might say or do something we find reason to criticize. Thus the commandment: ‘Judge not.’
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.
Ideals are like the stars – you can’t touch them with your hands, but by following them you reach your destination.
To catch the real meaning of the Spirit of Christmas, we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the Spirit of Christ.
One day each of us will run out of tomorrows. Let us not put off what is important.
Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.
To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.
Help others in their race of life. Remember that when you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer the top yourself.
You can share your testimony in many ways, by the words you speak, by the example you set, by the manner in which you live your life.
Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.
It’s not enough to wish, it’s not enough to dream, it’s not enough to promise. We must do.