“Mortality is the time to learn first of God and the gospel and to perform the ordinances. After our feet are set on the path to eternal life we can amass more knowledge of the secular things...Secular knowledge, as important as it is, can never save a soul nor open the celestial kingdom nor create a world nor make a man a god, but it can be most helpful to that man who, placing first things first, has found the way to eternal life and who can now bring into play all knowledge to be his tool and servant.”

“Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.”

“We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!”

“Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.”

“Our world is in turmoil. It is aging toward senility. It isvery ill. Long ago it was born with brilliant prospects. Itwas baptized by water, and its sins were washed away. Itwas never baptized by fire, for that is still to come. It hashad shorter periods of good health, but longer ones ofailing. Most of the time there have been pains and achesin some parts of its anatomy, but now that it is growingold, complications have set in, and all the ailments seemto be everywhere.The world has been ‘cliniced,’ and the complexdiseases have been catalogued. The physicians have hadsummit consultations, and temporary salve has beenrubbed on afflicted parts, but it has only postponed thefatal day and never cured it. It seems that while remedieshave been applied, staph infection has set in, and thepatient’s suffering intensified. His mind is wandering. Itcannot remember its previous illnesses nor the curewhich was applied. The political physicians through theages have rejected suggested remedies as unprofessionalsince they came from lowly prophets. Man being whathe is with tendencies such as he has, results can beprognosticated with some degree of accuracy.”

“Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to the Lord's spirit children and then rearing those children so they will serve the Lord and keep his commandments....Motherhood is a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord's work, a consecration and devotion to the rearing and fostering, the nurturing of body, mind, and spirit of those who kept their first estate and who came to this earth for their second estate to learn and be tested.”

“The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change the nature nor the seriousness of the practice. This woe is pronounced upon those who would pervert standards of mortality and decency. They seek man’s approval of that which God had condemned. They have been successful in getting legislation passed to make such perversion legal and acceptable by society.”