Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.

His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.

Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.

You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. We become taller in our testimony like we grow in physical stature and hardly know it is happening, because it comes by growth.

Happily ever after never happens in the second act.

When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not ratify speech nor confirm music which lacks spiritual substance.