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To those who are trying hard and living right and things still seem burdensome and difficult, I say, take heart. Others have walked that way before you.

How grateful I was that, in addition to being just, God is able to be merciful also.

Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?

Sadly enough... it is a characteristic of our age, that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much: comfortable, smooth gods.

There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.

Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony! Don’t just assume your children on their own will somehow get the drift of your beliefs.

Just believing, just having a molecule of faith – that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be not only the first principle of His Eternal Gospel but also the first step out of despair.

In a world of tribulation – and there will always be plenty of it – let’s remember our faith. Let’s recall the other promises and prophecies that have been given, all the reassuring ones, and let’s live life more fully, with more boldness and courage than at any other time in our history.

One of the early pieces of advice I had as a General Authority was that “we ought to have great music in the Church and more of it, coupled with great speaking in the Church and less of it.

I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our fast and free-will offerings, according to our circumstances. And we can watch for other ways to help.

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.

Be a true friend to those who need your strength and integrity.

I believe that in our own individual ways, God takes us to the grove or the mountain or the temple and there shows us the wonder of what His plan is for us. We may not see it as fully as Moses or Nephi or the brother of Jared did, but we see as much as need to see in order to know the Lord’s will for us and to know that He loves us beyond mortal comprehension.

Heaven, or the kingdom of God, is easy if e work at it hard, but hard if we work at it easy.

No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven.

The moment you have a self there is the temptation to put it forward, to put it first and at the center of things. And the more we are – socially or intellectually or politically or economically – the greater the risk of increasing self-worship.

Repentance is not a foreboding word. It is, after faith, the most encouraging word in the Christian vocabulary. Repentance is simply the scriptural invitation for growth and improvement and progress and renewal. You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness.

The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.

Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is so appropriate.

I may not be my brothers keeper, but I am my brother’s brother.

Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight and know all the evils that can deflect its course after is has left our hand, nevertheless we take courage in remembering that the most important factor in determining that arrow’s destination will be the stability, strength, and unwavering certainty of the holder of the bow.

Love, like individuals, is tested by the flame of adversity. If we are faithful and determined, it will temper and refine us, but it will not consume us. Enjoy what you now have. Be a disciple of Christ. Live worthily of marriage even if it doesn’t come soon. And cherish it with all your heart when it does.

Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior’s atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah.

Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.

May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.

You and I won’t ever find ourselves on that cross, but we repeatedly find ourselves at the foot of it. And how we act there will speak volumes about what we think of Christ’s character and His call for us to be His disciples.

The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion primarily because it is the most extended and definitive witness we have of the Lord Jesus Christ – of our Alpha and Omega, the Key Stone, the Chief Cornerstone of the eternal gospel. Christ is our salvation, and the Book of Mormon declares that message unequivocally to the world. In its message of faith in Christ, hope in Christ, and charity in Christ, the Book of Mormon is God’s “new covenant” to his children – for the last time.

Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.

We don’t want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.

I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend. The times call for great things, but great things in the noblest and most redemptive sense are predicted upon tolerance, love, respect, understanding, dignity, prayer, God.

The Church is not a fast food outlet. We can’t always have it our way. Some day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ, and that salvation can only come His way.

Just because God is God, just because Christ is Christ, they cannot do other than care for us and bless us and help us if we will but come unto them, approaching their throne of grace in meekness and lowliness of heart. They can’t help but bless us. They have to. It is their nature.

In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.

To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don’t the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

God loves us. He is good, He is our Father, and He expects us to pray, and to trust and be believing, and not give up, and not panic, and not retreat, when something doesn’t seem to be going just right.

God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future – to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.

Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet in part because righteousness was always supposed to accompany it. Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.

Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life.

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, “No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.

In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the field of, say, literary fiction can be just plain old-fashioned destruction when transferred to families yearning for faith at home.

I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend.

In His own ministry, Jesus did not come to improve God’s view of man nearly so much as He came to improve man’s view of God and to plead with them to love their Heavenly Father as He has always and will always love them.

We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

Satan is certainly not subtle in his teachings; why should we be? Whether we are instructing our children at home or standing before an audience in church, let us never make our faith difficult to detect.

Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the Church. Teach them that those blessings could come virtually no other way.

Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and it is what will keep you going.

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