Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Time is on the side of truth.

Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.

I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

In the beginning, God placed a woman in a companion role with the priesthood.

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

We should put God ahead of everyone else in our lives.

If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.

I testify to you that God's pay is the best pay that this world or any other world knows anything about.

Time is numbered only to man.

If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.

I have a vision of homes alerted, of classes alive, and of pulpits aflame with the spirit of Book of Mormon messages.

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.

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

Reading the Book of Mormon is one of the greatest persuaders to get men on missions.

There is a difference between a convert who is built on the rock of Christ through the Book of Mormon and stays hold of that iron rod, and one who is not.

Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

Food production is just one part of the repeated emphasis that you store a provision of food which will last for at least a year wherever it is legally permissible to do so.

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

Young women, the family unit is forever, and you should do everything in your power to strengthen that unit.

Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should.

Young adults enrolled in universities and colleges or other postsecondary training should avail themselves of the opportunity to take institute of religion courses or, if attending a Church school, should take at least one religion course every term.

Nations cannot endure in sin.

No other single influence has had so great an impact on this earth as the life of Jesus the Christ.

We all know of families who have obligated themselves for more than they could pay. There is a world of heartache behind such cases.

Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and discuss the Book of Mormon.

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.

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 Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.

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.

I cannot recall a time that I did not believe in Jesus Christ.

Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.