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.

Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.

It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and in a few years, a good wife.

While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices.

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 “childbirth fever” 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 man’s quest for knowledge had failed to heed the word of the Lord!