Through the Savior's Atonement and by following these basic patterns of faithfulness, we receive "power from on high" to face the challenges of life. We need this divine power today more than ever.

We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.

Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.

How we live our religion is far more important than what we may say about our religion.

When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.

It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.

What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.

As we follow [the Savior], He blesses us with gifts, talents, and the strength to do His will, allowing us to go beyond our comfort zones and do things we’ve never before thought possible.

We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.

Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

I don't think of the note in technical terms. I sing the emotion that I am feeling.

Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.