Make covenants and receive ordinances for yourself. Then steadily and consistently work to provide ordinances in the temple for your own ancestors.

Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Recognize the good in others, not their stains.

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Stay on the Lord's side, and you will win every time.

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.

Set your soul to greatness. You will be great.

If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us.

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact... It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

Splendid,' Abbé Patin said with a sheepish grin, pulling up alongside. 'There is nothing quite so thrilling as riding in fear of one's life.