When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

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.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

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.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Our God is a forgiving God.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Hope is a waking dream.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.