Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

God will facilitate, but He will not force.

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

Oh, how great the plan of our God!