We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.

In racing marathons, one does not see the dropouts make fun of those who continue; failed runners actually cheer on those who continue the race, wishing they were still in it. Not so with the marathon of discipleship in which some dropouts then make fun of the spiritual enterprise of which they were so recently a part!

The true Christian is a communicator.

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?

The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11-12; Isa. 53:3-5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.' (Mark 14:35-36.)

If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?