Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.
To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.
May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality… First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.
Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.
Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.
When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.
It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.
The storm stops at the door. Love reigns, peace dwells.
We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal
In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.
Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.
All men have their FEARS. But those who face their fears with FAITH have COURAGE as well.
The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.
Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.
May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, “no,” courage to say, “yes,” for courage counts.
Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.
If you want to give a light to others, you have to glow yourself.
When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.
Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: ‘know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?
To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry. I testify that such is possible.
Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.
Having gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not deliver it.
Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.
Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, ‘How many positions did you hold,’ but rather, ‘How many people did you help?
The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.
Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.
Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don’t take counsel of your fears.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things.
Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.
My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior’s love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.
There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart – and our neighbors as ourselves.
My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.
What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.
There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval.
The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.
The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.
I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.