Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.

God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.

We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.

Brothers and sisters, one of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so. His solitary journey brought great company for our little version of that path…This Easter week and always, may we stand by Jesus Christ ‘at all times and in all things, and in all places that (we) may be in, even until death,’ for surely that is how He stood by us when it was unto death and when He had to stand entirely and utterly alone.

When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.

Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Face your doubts. Master you fears.

No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven.