There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.