“You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“You are growing up in enemy territory. When you become mature spiritually, you will understand how the adversary has infiltrated the world around you. He is in homes, entertainment, the media, language—everything around you.” —President Boyd K. Packer, Seminary Centennial Broadcast, January 22, 2012
“Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.” — Joseph Smith
"Latter-day Saints are a covenant people, not a convenience people."
The restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ began with a singular event, and continues today on a personal level in the lives of individuals living all over the world.
Even though I am far away and none will be there to acknowledge my vote, still I raise my arm to the square. Not for the prophet's sake, not for anyone else's sake but for my own. I make this distinction because of the nature of the sustaining vote. It is not so much a public demonstration as it is a personal declaration of a person’s desire to follow the Lord and to have no other gods before Him.
If you could do it all over again, would you change anything?
“You only make once in a lifetime friends, once in a lifetime.”
"If you don’t have time for the important things, then you’re only busy not successful."
You are a child of God. He is the father of your spirit. . . . However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God! –Boyd K. Packer