There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.
We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life.
Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you.
Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.
God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.
A noble deed is a step toward God.
I believe that in our own individual ways, God takes us to the grove or the mountain or the temple and there shows us the wonder of what His plan is for us. We may not see it as fully as Moses or Nephi or the brother of Jared did, but we see as much as need to see in order to know the Lord’s will for us and to know that He loves us beyond mortal comprehension.
Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight and know all the evils that can deflect its course after is has left our hand, nevertheless we take courage in remembering that the most important factor in determining that arrow’s destination will be the stability, strength, and unwavering certainty of the holder of the bow.
The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion primarily because it is the most extended and definitive witness we have of the Lord Jesus Christ – of our Alpha and Omega, the Key Stone, the Chief Cornerstone of the eternal gospel. Christ is our salvation, and the Book of Mormon declares that message unequivocally to the world. In its message of faith in Christ, hope in Christ, and charity in Christ, the Book of Mormon is God’s “new covenant” to his children – for the last time.
I may not be my brothers keeper, but I am my brother’s brother.
Don’t you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead.
Be a true friend to those who need your strength and integrity.
One of the early pieces of advice I had as a General Authority was that “we ought to have great music in the Church and more of it, coupled with great speaking in the Church and less of it.
Sadly enough... it is a characteristic of our age, that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much: comfortable, smooth gods.
If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived.
How grateful I was that, in addition to being just, God is able to be merciful also.
To those who are trying hard and living right and things still seem burdensome and difficult, I say, take heart. Others have walked that way before you.
Love, like individuals, is tested by the flame of adversity. If we are faithful and determined, it will temper and refine us, but it will not consume us. Enjoy what you now have. Be a disciple of Christ. Live worthily of marriage even if it doesn’t come soon. And cherish it with all your heart when it does.
Repentance is not a foreboding word. It is, after faith, the most encouraging word in the Christian vocabulary. Repentance is simply the scriptural invitation for growth and improvement and progress and renewal. You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness.
Bad days come to an end.
There is still much in life to be hopeful for and grateful about.