Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
— Ezra Taft Benson
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.
One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned.
The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
