Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.
We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.
Whatever our calling, regardless of our fears or anxieties, let us pray and then go and do.
In the private sanctuary of one’s own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.
You have a heritage honor it. You have posses a testimony share it. You will face temptations withstand it. You know the truth live it.
Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.
The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God.
Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.
I have found that, rather than dwelling on the negative, if we will take a step back and consider the blessings in our lives, including seemingly small, sometimes overlooked blessings, we can find greater happiness.
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don’t take counsel of your fears.
The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
In reality, we are all travelers – even explorers of mortality.
Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.
Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life’s work.
I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life’s work in a field that you enjoy.
I wasn’t with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.
We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.
We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.
When you’re at a funeral and you’re crying, you’re crying for yourself.
We do not find truth groveling through error.