I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don’t take counsel of your fears.
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
The future is as bright as your faith.
Traveling is difficult when you go for long stretches at a time, but you always come back refreshed, feeling that you’ve accomplished something. I’m on my knees before I go anywhere in this world.
When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, ‘I want to do the best I know how to do every day.’
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.
We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.
We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.
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.
Many years ago, it was my opportunity to serve as president of the Canadian Mission. There we had a branch with very limited priesthood. We always had a missionary presiding over the branch. I received a strong impression that we needed to have a member of the branch preside there.
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.
On occasion we need to make a second effort – and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.
The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered.
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
We tend to become like those whom we admire.
In reality, we are all travelers – even explorers of mortality.
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.
I testify that this work in which we’re engaged is the Lord’s work. I’ve felt His sustaining influence.
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