Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate. As President J. Reuben Clark Jr. declared, motherhood is ‘as divinely called, as eternally important in its place as the Priesthood itself.’

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

I can't imagine pain greater than stepping across the veil and realizing I had not done what I came here to do - or realizing that I had given up my life to little or nothing, only then to find that it was gone. p 3

Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.

It is possible to be clean in a dirty world.

The only way that we may overcome the world is by coming unto Christ. And coming to Christ means walking away from the world.

We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.