Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.

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

Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.

Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . . We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see

If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.