There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

I assume, gladly, that in the allocation to America of remarkable leaders like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, the Lord was just as careful. After all, if you've got only one Abraham Lincoln, you'd better put him in that point in history when he's most needed-much as some of us might like to have him now.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.

Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, . . . but the Passage of Soul.

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.