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

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

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

Teenagers also sometimes think, 'What's the use? The world will soon be blown all apart and come to an end.' That feeling comes from fear, not from faith. No one knows the hour or the day (see D&C 49:7), but the end cannot come until all of the purposes of the Lord are fulfilled. Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.

A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.

The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.

The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings.