Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!

We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.

Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.

How we live our religion is far more important than what we may say about our religion.

When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.

It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.

What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.

As we follow [the Savior], He blesses us with gifts, talents, and the strength to do His will, allowing us to go beyond our comfort zones and do things we’ve never before thought possible.

We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.

Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

You are nothing but a reflection of your imagination. Be yourself to create a better self.

Mom was the midwife who delivered stories to me.

The warmth and the passion in my veins are more than enough for a hundred thirsty girls.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.

Sunday comes after Saturday? Weird.

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.