We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.

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.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

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

Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.

Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.