If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.

If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy, and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation, the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.

The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body to undergo an experience in mortality.

Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.