When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.
The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.
The greatest test of life is obedience to God.
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. . . Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure. . . Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.
Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .
Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God