At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!

Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from the excesses of appetite or from individual indifference to great principles or institutions. Any significant unraveling of the moral fiber of the American people, therefore, finally imperils the Constitution.

God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him, neither can we. The best people have a heightened awareness of what little of the worst is still in them! Indeed, the divine discontent, the justifiable spiritual restlessness that we feel, is a natural follow-on feeling in the disciple who has taken the Lord's counsel to "make you a new heart and a new spirit." (Ezekiel 18:31.)

Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.