Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God - more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

All leaders in the Lord's Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity's faith later.

As a medical doctor and cardiac surgeon, I had the responsibility of performing open-heart surgery on President Spencer W. Kimball in 1972, when he was Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well - and for each of God's children.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord's Church and man-made institutions.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Each faithful young woman in the Church proclaims that individual worth is one of her most cherished values.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood - both its power and those who bear it.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.'

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.

If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God's law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.

Imagine the privilege the Lord has given us of sustaining His prophet, whose counsel will be untainted, unvarnished, unmotivated by any personal aspiration, and utterly true!