The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

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

An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!