Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young.

The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work.

(In your callings) you have access to more than your natural capacities, and you do not work alone. The Lord will magnify what you say and what you do in the eyes of the people you serve. He will send the Holy Ghost to manifest to them that what you spoke was true. What you say and do will carry hope and give direction to people far beyond your natural abilities and your own understanding.

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.

The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.