The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection. For example, throughout history, infections like โchildbirth feverโ claimed the lives of many innocent mothers and babies. Yet the Old Testament had the correct principles for the handling of infected patients, written more than 3,000 years ago! Many people perished because manโs quest for knowledge had failed to heed the word of the Lord!
Russell M. NelsonFor their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, โฆ they without us cannot be made perfectโneither can we without our dead be made perfect.
Russell M. NelsonRegardless of gender, marital status, or age, individuals can choose to link themselves directly to the Savior, hold fast to the rod of His truth, and lead by the light of that truth. By so doing, they become examples of righteousness to whom others will want to cling.
Russell M. NelsonA strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!
Russell M. NelsonTruth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith.
Russell M. NelsonAll Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.
Russell M. NelsonUnfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.
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