Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally to establish our own righteousness instead of the Lord's (D&C 1:16). After all, Lucifer was willing to work very hard, but conditionally in his own way and for his own purposes.

The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

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

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.

Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.