We can learn that at the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! Those, for instance, who stretch themselves in service- though laced with limiting diseases-are often the healthiest among us! The Spirit can drive the flesh beyond where the body first agrees to go!

Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

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.

When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible to feel anything other than overwhelmed by the attributes so perfectly developed in them and so tentatively and superficially developed in oneself. Even so, we are told to strive to become like them.

Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform those who know even less about the Church; but the fact is they were really only tourists - not natives who really knew the kingdom's countryside.

Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.