Only when you lift a burden, God will lift your burden. Divine paradox this! The man who staggers and falls because his burden is too great can lighten that burden by taking on the weight of another's burden. You get by giving, but your part of giving must be given first.

We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!

By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

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

It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.