When the real history of the world is written, it will show god’s dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on

As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal sense that any mortal son is born to a mortal father. There is nothing figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in the normal and natural course of events, for he is the Son of God, and that designation means what it says.

I think that people who study the scriptures get a dimension to their life that nobody else gets and that can’t be gained in any way except by studying the scriptures. There’s an increase in faith and a desire to do what’s right and a feeling of inspiration and understanding that comes to people who study the gospel—meaning particularly the Standard Works—and who ponder the principles, that can’t come in any other way

We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.

The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.