May your efforts to develop Christlike attributes be successful so that His image may be engraven in your countenance and His attributes manifest in your behavior

Others don't make us angry. There is no force involved. Becoming angry is a conscious choice, a decision, therefore, we can make the choice not to become angry. We choose!

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.

Never forget which way you face

The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner beauty.

Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.

I can take my wife out for a lovely evening this Friday, which is a to do. But being a good husband is not an event; it needs to be part of my nature—my character, or who I am.

Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.

Entering the waters of baptism is something we do. The be that must precede it is faith in Jesus Christ and a mighty change of heart.

Shiny, let's be bad guys!

Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.

Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

I have never had a dietician and I never will, unless I get a disease.