And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin, and, through making and keeping sacred covenants, to have the blessings of eternal life.

Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship. This includes compulsory duties like military service and the numerous voluntary actions they must take if they are to preserve the principle of limited government through citizen self-reliance.

We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.

When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.

In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.

I expect celibacy of any person that is not married.

Religious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago.