God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

When they come out to my shows they like me but trying to get them to come out to my shows they're like "I don't want to go and see that old guy" But when they do they totally get it.

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

The Book of Mormon changes lives.

One can never change the future by waiting 'till tomorrow.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.