Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with fasting and scripture study, will invite impressions and revelations and the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. This provides us with instruction from on high as we learn precept upon precept.

Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.

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

In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true, it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies, pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face.

Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.