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

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.

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

To think of enduring to the end as ‘hanging in there,’ doing one’s duty relentlessly, is not inaccurate. Yet enduring to the end is more than outlasting and surviving, though it includes those qualities. We are called upon, as was the Prophet Joseph, to ‘endure it well,’ gracefully, not grudgingly. (D&C 121:8.) We are also told that we must ‘endure in faith.’ (D&C 101:35.) These dimensions of enduring are important to note. Likewise, we are asked to endure ‘valiantly.’ (D&C 121:29.)

Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.