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

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

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 laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.