Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

Integrity is the core of our character.

The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

Anger causes anguish to the souls of all of those who experience the feeling as well as to those who are the recipients of this emotional explosion.

People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.

Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!""You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome,

People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.

Never stop studying the Holy Scriptures .

g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor" --w.e.b. dubois

Here's how I'll tell you what I think—if you see white smoke then you know I picked a new pope. And if I'm drinking a Snapple then you know I don't give a shit.

A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts.

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

It ain't the end of the world, you know. Just the end of what you knew.

I received a shot and broke my tooth. Unfortunately, we Italians only eat pasta al dente.