Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in the Ninevehs of our lives without being so conscious of the coming cataclysm that we are not serious citizens of our communities and nations. By living and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are doing the most relevant thing we can do by way of helping. (There are civic and other chores to be done, of course.) Day in and day out, the gospel is the one thing that is most relevant, and we are to be of good cheer.

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

We...live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest music. And, likewise, we’re in a world that’s so attuned to the now that we need to permit people to be more attuned to the best music of all ages.

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

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.