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.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

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

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.