Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.

I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat" (3 Nephi 18:18). If you will earnestly seek guidance from your Heavenly Father, morning and evening, you will be given the strength to shun any temptation.

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.

Those who think clean thoughts do not do dirty deeds.

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

Communities have a responsibility to assist the family in promoting wholesome entertainment. What a community tolerates will become tomorrow's standard for today's youth.

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.