If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.

I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.