Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.

Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.

I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it.

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