"People need spiritual anchors in their lives if they are to remain steadfast and not drift into the sea of temptation and sin."

--Elder M. Russell Ballard, Ensign, Dec. 1993, 50

"You can share your testimony in many ways, by the words you speak, by the example you set, by the manner in which you live your life."

--President Thomas S. Monson, Ensign, May 2005, 115

"If we are well prepared, death brings no terror. From an eternal perspective, death is premature only for those who are not prepared to meet God."

--Elder Russell M. Nelson, Ensign, May 2005, 18

"We must keep our faith simple and our worship pure. Religion is more than a ritual; it is righteousness."

--President James E. Faust, Ensign, May 1999, 18

"A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out."

--President Thomas S. Monson, Ensign, May 2001, 50

"Read the Book of Mormon itself. Read it again and again. Ponder its beauty. Reflect upon its many magnificent passages. Think of the complexity of the detail of its historical accounts. Pray about it, and the Holy Ghost will bear record to you, as He has to me and to millions of others, that it is the word of God, a voice crying from the dust to this generation in declaration of the divinity and the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ as the living Son of the living God."

--President Gordon B. Hinckley, Sept. 2003

"I say that we need to teach our people to find their answers in the scriptures...But the unfortunate thing is that so many of us are not reading the scriptures. We do not know what is in them, and therefore we speculate about things that we ought to have found in the scriptures themselves. I think that therein is one of our biggest dangers of today."

-President Harold B. Lee, December, 1972

"Education is gained primarily from the Spirit of the Lord by revelation and secondarily by study, research, and investigation."

--Mormon Doctrine, p. 214

"The moment you begin a serious study of the [Book of Mormon], you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path....When you begin to hunger and thirst after those words, you will find life in greater and greater abundance."

--President Ezra Taft Benson Ensign, November 1986, page 7.

"You reach the greatest heights while on your knees."

--Quoted by Bishop H. David Burton Ensign, November 2001, page 66.

"The intensity of our desire to share the gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversion."

--Elder Dallin H. Oaks; Ensign, November 2001, page 7.

“Thou shalt not steal; … nor do anything like unto it.”

D&C 59:6

"The Church exists to exalt the family. And the family is the fundamental unit of the Church."
--Elder Russell M. Nelson; Ensign, November 2001, page 70.

Always Vote For Principle

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

--John Quincy Adams