The word religion literally means ‘to ligate again’ or ‘to tie back’ to God. The question we might ask ourselves is, are we securely tied to God so that our faith shows, or are we actually tied to something else?

My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the Gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior.

[Observing the] Sabbath is therefore a declaration of our freedom. It means you are not a slave – not to your culture’s expectations, your family’s hopes, your medical school’s demands, not even to your own insecurities. To practice Sabbath is a disciplined and faithful way to remember that you are not the one who keeps the world running, who provides for your family, not even the one who keeps your work projects moving forward. How easy it is to fall prey to the temptation to believe that [we] alone are holding up our corner of creation.

With gratitude, optimism becomes sustainable.

In America it doesn’t matter where you came from, it matters where you are going.

To one with faith, no explanation is needed; to one without, no explanation is possible.

Those who have passed on are as deeply interested in our welfare today, if not with greater capacity, with far more interest behind the veil, than they were in the flesh… They see us, they are solicitous for our welfare, they loves us now more than ever.

The purpose of the cult was not to convince or persuade, but to sow confusion, destroy common sense, enforce obedience, isolate individuals and crush their dignity. People had to self-censor and in turn they monitored others, denouncing those who failed to appear sufficiently sincere in their professions of loyalty. No one knew who believed what.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affection and the truth of imagination.

The nature of God’s word is, that whosoever reads it will begin immediately to make him every day better and better, til he has grown into a perfect man.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

1: Whatever the work is, do it well—not for the boss but for yourself, 2: You make the job; it doesn’t make you, 3: Your real life is with us, your family, 4:You are not the work you do; you are the person you are. I have worked for all sorts of people since then, geniuses and morons, quick-witted and dull, bighearted and narrow. I’ve had many kinds of jobs, but since that conversation with my father I have never considered the level of labor to be the measure of myself, and I have never placed the security of a job above the value of home.

How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?

‘Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me,’ declared Martin Luther boldly, though threatened and persecuted. Luther stood for the responsibility of the individual and the rights of the individual conscience, and this he did at the imminent risk of his life.

Too many go about their lives thinking they are of little worth when, in reality, they are elegant and eternal creatures of infinite value with potential beyond imagination.

A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, … those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

The life of a nation is secure only while that nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

​But ​​​sanctify​ the Lord God in your hearts: and ​be​ ready always to ​give​ ​​​an answer​ to every man that asketh you a reason of the ​​​hope​ that is in you with ​​​meekness​ and ​​​fear

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it … The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

So let us begin anew—remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is subject to proof.

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

To sit at one’s table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer (fountain) pen — that is true happiness.

The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It’s unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don’t have to try.

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high. They can become the key to open the channel to communion with our Father in Heaven and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it… You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theatre in which your own little plot is always played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky, in a street full of splendid strangers.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the [savage] has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness…

In both parties there are fools at one end and crackpots at the other, but the great body in the middle is sound and wise.

Angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore, they speak the words of Christ. Wherefore, I said unto you, feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do.

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.