It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the close of each such occasion, I have reflected on the rewarding experience of standing with confidence in the presence of an acknowledged leader.
We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.
Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.
The world is starved for spiritual food.
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.
Some of you, unfortunately, will never marry in this life. That turns out to be the case sometimes. If that happens, do not spend your life grieving over it. The world still needs your talents. It needs your contribution.
I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.
The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.
Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.
Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.
The Lord is forgiving, but sometimes life is not forgiving.
I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.
The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.
Nothing's too good for the Lord.
I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.
If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.
