It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That's our motto.

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile

So much depends upon our willingness to make up our minds, collectively and individually, that present levels of performance are not acceptable, either to ourselves or to the Lord. In saying that, I am not calling for flashy, temporary differences in our performance levels, but a quiet resolve to do a better job, to lengthen our stride.

Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands.

Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

I say to everyone within the sound of my voice, 'Do not fail the Lord'. We must accept the truth that the gospel principles are not on trial but that we are.