I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.
— Ezra Taft Benson
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
I testify to you that God's pay is the best pay that this world or any other world knows anything about.
Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.
Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.
In the beginning, God placed a woman in a companion role with the priesthood.
America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.
God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.
No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.
Unless you and your mate are united in purpose, dedication, and loyalty, you will not succeed to the extent you otherwise could.
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.
God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.
The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.
Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.
God's revelation to Adam did not instruct Noah how to build the ark.
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.
The sacred title of 'father' is shared with the Almighty.
I have a vision of homes alerted, of classes alive, and of pulpits aflame with the spirit of Book of Mormon messages.
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.
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.
False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds.
A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.
The world is increasing in wickedness.
Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.
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.
Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.
I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need.
'What would Jesus do?' or 'What would He have me do?' are the paramount personal questions of this life.
Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.
The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.
Callings in the church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place.
In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.
Time is numbered only to man.
We should put God ahead of everyone else in our lives.
The United States of America has been great because it has been free.
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.
An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.
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.
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.
The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.
I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.
Time is on the side of truth.
Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.
The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired.
The Book of Mormon Is the Word of God.
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
