We get what we focus on consistently.

Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.

Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.

Enduring to the end requires total commitment to the Savior and to our covenants.

Don't let something you don't fully understand unravel everything you do know.

If you lose the Spirit, you are lost.

In a household of faith, there is no need to fear or doubt. Choose to live by faith and not fear.

Choose to live by faith and not fear

Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure.

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.

It's not how long; it's how strong.

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

Keep your mouth closed, and let your eyes listen.

Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.