Testimony is to know and to feel, Conversion is to do and to become.
Healing blessings come in many ways, each suited to our individual needs, as known to Him who loves us best. Sometimes a ‘healing’ cures our illness or lifts our burden. But sometimes we are ‘healed’ by being given strength or understanding or patience to bear the burdens placed upon us.
Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.
The intensity of our desire to share the gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversion.
Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to women as well as men.
Become what our Heavenly Father desires you to become.
It’s amazing how much you can get done if you don’t worry about who gets the credit.
We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate for our inadequacies and repair our imperfections.
What does it mean to be true to the faith? That word true implies commitment, integrity, endurance, and courage.
The most effective missionsries always act out of love.
The church doesn’t seek apologies and we don’t give them.
When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice.
Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.
Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.
Establish in the mind of a young person the powerful idea that he or she is a child of God, and you have given self-respect and motivation to move against the problems of life.
And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin, and, through making and keeping sacred covenants, to have the blessings of eternal life.
Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.
Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality.
Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality.
It is not enough that we are under call or even that we are going in the right direction. The timing must be right.
Alcohol is the number one addictive drug in our day.