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

How you deal with life’s trials is part of the development of your faith.

Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.

Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.

An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, “I will hasten my work in its time” (D&C 88:73).

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.