Any opportunity to serve in the Church is a blessing.

Grief is the natural by-product of love. One cannot selflessly love another person and not grieve at his suffering or eventual death. The only way to avoid the grief would be to not experience the love; and it is love that gives life its richness and meaning.

The good news for somebody who is struggling with same-gender attraction is this: It is that 'I'm not stuck with it forever.' It's just now. Admittedly, for each one of us, it's hard to look beyond the 'now' sometimes. But nonetheless, if you see mortality as now, it's only during this season.

There is no such thing in the Lord's eyes as something called same-gender marriage.

What happens in somebody's house down the street does in very deed have an effect on what happens in my house and how it's treated.

In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.

The willingness to turn to the Savior, the opportunity of going to sacrament service on a Sunday, and really participating in the ordinance of the sacrament... listening to the prayers, partaking of those sacred emblems. Those are opportunities that really help us to come within the ambit of the Savior's Atonement.