Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.
With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ability.
Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.
The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.
No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.
The sacred title of 'father' is shared with the Almighty.
Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.
When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.
We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.
Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.
Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
