If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

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.

The time is long overdue for a massive flooding of the earth with the Book of Mormon for the many reasons which the Lord has given. In this age of electronic media and mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.

If you want to get the spirit of the gospel in your home, support the missionary program. Prepare your sons and daughters through your home evenings; through setting the proper example in your homes. Prepare to send them into the mission field. These young sons and daughters will bless your names forever if you help to make it possible through your training and your example and your willingness to sacrifice just a little, if you can call it sacrifice, to see them go into the mission field.

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Temples are places of personal revelation. When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. The answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways.