Look for the Sunlight through the Clouds.

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.

If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy, and your marriage will go on through eternity

I believe without any doubt that you are the finest generation this Church has ever had.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.