Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life.

As we come unto Christ and journey to higher ground, we will desire to spend more time in His temples, because the temples represent higher ground, sacred ground.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

I believe that perseverance is vital to success in any endeavor, whether spiritual or temporal, large or small, public or personal. . . . All significant achievement results largely from perseverance.

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen.