Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to women as well as men.

In order to ask with real intent or to act with full purpose of heart, we must always make an accompanying commitment.

Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

Forgiving is divine. Plead for the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord to forgive wrongs, to overcome faults, and to strengthen relationships.

Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God must come to this earth for a glorious purpose, and that individual identity began long before conception and will continue for all the eternities to come. We rely on the prophets of God who have told us that while there may be 'rare' exceptions, 'the practice of elective abortion is fundamentally contrary to the Lord's injunction, 'Thou shalt not . . . kill, nor do anything like unto it'