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

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!

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?

Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

Real disciples absorb the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding to the iron rod with the other (see Eph. 6:16; 1 Ne. 15:24; D&C 27:17). There should be no mistaking; it will take both hands!