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

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel... America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord's latter-day base of operations for His restored church.