The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.

An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Joseph's vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.