The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

In a 'wheat and tares' world, how unusually blessed faithful members are to have the precious and constant gift of the Holy Ghost with reminders of what is right and of the covenants we have made. 'For behold, ... the Holy Ghost ... will show unto you all things what ye should do.' (2 Ne. 32:5.) Whatever the decibels of decadence, these need not overwhelm the still, small voice! Some of the best sermons we will ever hear will be thus prompted from the pulpit of memory—to an audience of one!

Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.

Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.