You do not find truth groveling through error. Truth is found by searching, studying, and living the revealed word of God. We learn truth when we associate with truth. We adopt error when we mingle with error. – Thomas S. Monson, “Conference Report,” October 1964, First Day-Morning Meeting, p.18
Now, like the rest of the world, informed Latter-day Saints are fully aware that our civilization is going forward backwards and that our affluent society is filled with much anxiety. But, unlike the rest of the world, we are not “still searching for . . . the answers.” We know what they are. The Almighty […]
Abstract qualities of character don’t mean much in the abstract. It is how we live, how we serve, how we teach our children, what we do from day to day that both indicate what we are and determine what we are; and all the theory and all the speculation, all the quoting of scripture, all […]
Because of the difference in definitions, those who seek peace may be searching for unrelated conditions. The peace for which the world longs is a time of suspended hostilities; but men do not realize that peace is a state of existence that comes to man only upon the terms and conditions set by God, and […]
There is no finer symbol or characterization of the [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] to me than to think of the boy Joseph going to the woods, in his own words, “on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring,” kneeling, offering a prayer, asking questions of the God in […]
It is the mission of the Holy Ghost to inspire the Latter-day Saints in their efforts to build God’s kingdom, to enhance and strengthen the missionary system at home and abroad, and to enlighten the minds of those who are searching for the truth. – Alma Sonne, “Conference Report,” April 1968, Afternoon Meeting, p.42
It has been said in many different ways that “In our children lies the future of our world.” If we believe this, and we do, then the education of our children deserves our foremost careful attention. Every father and mother every mature person in our land should be profoundly interested in the education of our […]
The cause of God is one common cause, in which the Saints are alike all interested; we are all members of the one common body, and all partake of the same spirit, and are baptized into one baptism and possess alike the same glorious hope. The advancement of the cause of God and the building […]
There is, of course, nothing wrong with being honored by men, if one is being honored for a good thing, if one comes to these honors through righteous living, and if, while holding these honors, one lives honorably. One should strive to have wide influence for good. – Ezra Taft Benson, “Conference Report,” October 1964, […]
If in our thoughts of the resurrection of the Savior of the world we could realize more perfectly that he mastered the teaching of the Psalmist, “that the statutes of God give wisdom unto the simple, and the highest conceivable wisdom to the humblest minds,” people’s hearts would be awakened to a spiritual response, which […]