Prayer is your personal key to heaven.

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.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

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.

One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds. The scriptures speak of 'the shield of faith wherewith,' the Lord said, 'ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked' (D&C 27:17). This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.

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

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.