The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like the Apostle Paul-is available for every affliction in mortality.

Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.

Love is the most powerful force in the world.

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

The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly love and care for one another. We sense the importance of these relationships when we realize that our greatest expressions of joy or pain in mortality come from the members of our families

If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia.

The ultimate defining fact for all of us is that we are children of Heavenly Parents, born on this earth for a purpose, and born with a divine destiny.