I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.
Our Father in Heaven needs you to be who you are. . . . You are very important.
You don't have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles You carry within you the power to make the world better.
Agency is the power to think, choose, and act for ourselves. It comes with endless opportunities, accompanied by responsibility and consequences. It is a blessing and a burden. Using this gift of agency wisely is critical today because never in the world's history have God's children been so blessed or so blatantly confronted with so many choices.
Love is listening when they are ready to talk--midnight, 6:00 A. M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your urgencies.
There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.
From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.
How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.