It is not enough to want to make the effort and to say we'll make the effort. We must actually make the effort. It's in the doing, not just the thinking, that we accomplish our goals. If we constantly put our goals off, we will never see them fulfilled. Someone put it this way: Live only for tomorrow, and you will have a lot of empty yesterdays today.

My earnest prayer is that you will have the courage required to refrain from judging others, the courage to be chaste and virtuous, and the courage to stand firm for truth and righteousness. As you do so, you will be ‘an example of the believers’ (1 Timothy 4:12), and your life will be filled with love and peace and joy.

Every bishop can testify to the promptings that attend calls to serve in the Church. Frequently the call seems to be for the benefit not so much of those to be taught or led as for the person who is to teach or lead.

You can share your testimony in many ways, by the words you speak, by the example you set, by the manner in which you live your life.

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, He is with us. He has promised us that this will never change.

Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family.

Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have.