Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.

You must realize that the true desire to express affection can be motivated by things other than true love.... In short, one might simply say: save your kisses--you might need them someday. And when anyof you--men and women--are given entrance to the heart of a trusting young friend, you stand on holy ground. In such a place you must be honest with yourself--and with your friend--about love and the expression of it's symbols.

Because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can learn from our experience without being condemned by our experience.

Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.

The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Savior’s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character

Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will.

The Savior’s gift of grace to us is not necessarily limited in time to ‘after’ all we can do. We may receive his grace before, during and after the time when we expend our own efforts