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One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned.
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.
Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad.
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.
Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget.
Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'
Reading the Book of Mormon is one of the greatest persuaders to get men on missions.
Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.
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30 May, 1994
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