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Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
Unless you and your mate are united in purpose, dedication, and loyalty, you will not succeed to the extent you otherwise could.
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.
Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.
Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.
Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.
During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.
Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.
We all know of families who have obligated themselves for more than they could pay. There is a world of heartache behind such cases.
Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.
If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.
Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.
The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.
Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.
Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.
Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.
Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.
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.
The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.
Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.
Try as you may, you cannot put the Lord in your debt. For every time you try to do His will, He simply pours out more blessings upon you.
The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation.
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent
Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.
The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.
Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
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.
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.
Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.
Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.
"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.
What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.
The God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government. And he has sent other choice spirits to preserve it.
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.
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.
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.
Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.
The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.
A half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music, and have nothing but fun and music, and I God bless you for it!
I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.