The Book of Mormon Is the Word of God.

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.

The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord has placed His stamp of approval on both the keystone and the capstone.

The sacred title of 'father' is shared with the Almighty.

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain His presence. Our Father promised a Savior to redeem them from their fallen condition.

Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.

The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired.

The price of peace is righteousness.

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

God's revelation to Adam did not instruct Noah how to build the ark.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.

False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds.

Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

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.

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.