The submissive will make it through to that final scene, for the word of God will lead the man and woman of Christ "in a straight and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery . . . and land their souls . . . at the right hand of God in the kingdom, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers" (Helaman 3:30) "who have been ever since the world began . . . to go no more out."

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

Mother lode of learning.

Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they really are."

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

The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.

On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.