"There are two purposes for life in mortality. The first is that we might gain experiences that we could not obtain in any other way. The second is to obtain tabernacles of flesh and bones. Both of these purposes are vital to the existence of man. We are now being tried and tested to see if we will do all the things the Lord has commanded us to do ( Read more... )

"A love for the Savior, a reverence for His name, and genuine respect one for another will provide a fertile seedbed for a testimony to grow ( Read more... )

"Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink. It is to you who are looking for a safe harbor that I wish to speak today, you whose hearts are breaking, you who are worried or afraid, you who bear grief or the burdens of sin, you who feel no one is listening to your cries, ( Read more... )

"The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage. And the tragedy of life is to fail in that test and so fail to qualify to return in glory to our heavenly home ( Read more... )

"For all of us this life is a time of sifting and refining. We all face trials. Individual members in the early days of the Church were tested and refined when they had to decide if they had the faith . . . to put their belongings in a wagon or a pioneer handcart and travel across the American plains. Some did not have the faith. Those who did ( Read more... )

"We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. For some it may be poverty, but for others it may be prosperity. It may be the ravages of age or the exuberance of youth. The combination of trials and their duration are as varied as are the children of our Heavenly Father. No two are alike. But ( Read more... )

"Any of us may experience a spouse, a child, a parent, or a member of our extended family suffering in one way or another--mentally, physically, emotionally, or spiritually--and we may experience these tribulations ourselves at times. In short, mortality is not easy ( Read more... )

"When the challenges of mortality come, and they come for all of us ( Read more... )

"The glory of God is portrayed in the lives of the Latter-day ( Read more... )