How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty and cleanliness! How our schools need continued encouragement and assistance to maintain high educational standards! Rather than spend time complaining about the direction in which these institutions are going, we need to exert our influence in shaping the right direction. A small effort by a few can result in so much good for all of mankind.

The nations of the world, if they follow the Lord, will continue to be a blessing to His children so long as they trust and follow Him.

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

The service of bringing light to a troubled world must never end.

A family needs a father to anchor it.

The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God’s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.

Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and the Internet have surrounded us with worldliness. . . . We are fortunate to have been blessed with a special power to direct us in making important decisions between right and wrong.