Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.
I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.
Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.
It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.
I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen.
The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.
Unless you and your mate are united in purpose, dedication, and loyalty, you will not succeed to the extent you otherwise could.
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
Let your minds be filled with the goal of being like the Lord, and you will crowd out depressing thoughts as you anxiously seek to know Him and do His will.
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.
From the Book of Mormon, we learn how disciples of Christ live in times of war.
Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.
The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.
I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.
