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

We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find nobility and divinity in motherhood, so be it. For mother is the word that will define a righteous woman made perfect in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom, a woman who has qualified for eternal increase in posterity, wisdom, joy, and influence.

The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years will absolutely determine whether you pivot towards the world or towards the Lord.

I always felt big and unattractive.

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.

None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.

I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.