“Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.”

What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

Some things that are true are not very useful.

In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.

Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.

If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, “I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance.” If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.

Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”

It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.

Joseph’s vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.

Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.

Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .

Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done.

Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream – don’t ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

Whatever your journey has been, do not be discouraged, you are important, and you matter.

Get to a level of mentally that nothing can discourage you off your path.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.