How you deal with life’s trials is part of the development of your faith. Strength comes when you remember that you have a divine nature, an inheritance of infinite worth.

All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.

Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.

Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy. [You] will encounter people who pick which commandments they will keep and ignore others that they choose to break. I call this the cafeteria approach to obedience. This practice of picking and choosing will not work. It will lead to misery. To prepare to meet God, one keeps all of His commandments. It takes faith to obey them, and keeping His commandments will strengthen that faith.

Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

From the holy scriptures, heaven-sent lift will be found for heaven-sent duties.