“Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.”

The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.

Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.

We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.

All religions begin with the cry Help.

If I don’t understand it, it must be art.

Progression: you can start from where you are.

Now it’s a fully realized production but for the fact that we’re holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn’t and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don’t have to use them but you gotta hold them.

Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.

Patents? Disappointed? Don’t think of it that way. Software patents weren’t feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.

Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.

But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.

It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.