He has, He reminds us, graven thee upon the palms of my hands (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now.

Surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don't expect it and often feel they don't deserve it.

Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.

The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.

There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.

Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony!

Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior's atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah.

No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that he loves each of us -- insecuritie s, anxieties, self-image, and all.

I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend.

Please know that your Father in Heaven loves you and so does His Only Begotten Son. When they speak to you -- and They will -- it will not be in the wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but it will be with a voice still and small, a voice tender and kind. It will be with the tongue of angels.

Rich or poor, we are to do what we can when others are in need.

May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.

Just believing, just having a molecule of faith -- that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be not only the first principle of His Eternal Gospel but also the first step out of despair.

It is obvious that the bumper sticker question What would Jesus do? will not always bring a popular response.

Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?

When life is hard, remember -- we are not the first to ask, 'Is there no other way?

The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future.

Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet in part because righteousness was always supposed to accompany it. Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.

So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.