It is well to know that prayer is not compounded of words, words that may fail to express what one desires to say, words that so often cloak inconsistencies, words that may have not deeper source than the physical organs of speech, words that may be spoken to impress mortal ears. The dumb may pray, and that too with the eloquence that prevails in heaven. Prayer is made upon heart throbs and the righteous yearnings of the soul, of supplication and pure desire. If there lives a man who has never really prayed, that man is a being apart from the order of the divine in human nature, a stranger in the family of God's creation...God without our prayers would be God; but we without prayer cannot be admitted into the kingdom of God.

-James E. Talmage-

Like the polar star in the heavens, regardless of what the future holds, there stand the Redeemer of the world, the Son of God, certain and sue as the anchor of our immortal souls.

-Gordon B. Hinckley-

The time is coming when no man or woman will be able to endure on borrowed light. Each will have be guided by the light within himself. If we do no have it, you will not stand.

-Heber C. Kimball-

The Lord will try us until He knows what He can do with us. He tried His Son Jesus. Thousands of years before He came upon the earth the Father had watched His course and knew that He could depend upon Him when the salvation of worlds should be at stake...He will continue to try us, in order that He might place us in the highest positions in life and put upon us the most sacred responsibilities.

-Lorenzo Snow-

Since immortality and eternal life constitutes the sole purpose of life, all other interests and activities are but incidental thereto.

-Spencer W. Kimball-

The nearer man approaches perfection, the clearer are his views, and the greater are his enjoyments, till he has overcome the evils of his life and lost every desire for sin; and like the ancients, arrives at the point of faith where his wrapped in the power and glory of his Maker and is caught up to dwell with Him.

-Joseph Smith, Jr.-

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Acutally, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best--better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His.

-Neal A. Maxwell-

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

-Brigham Young-

We don't ask any people to throw away any good they've got; we only ask them to come and get more.

-Joseph Smith, Jr.-

God-sanctioned marriage between a man and a woman has been the basis of civilization for thousands of years. There is no justification to redefine what marriage is. Such is not our right and those who try will find themselves answerable to God.

-Gordon B. Hinckley-

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in...The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

-Ezra Taft Benson-

God never bestows upon His people, or upon an individual, superior blessings without a severe trial to prove them.

-Brigham Young-

Men and women have complementary, not competing responsibilities. There is difference but not inequality...In the woman's part, she is not equal to man; she is superior! She can do that which he can never do; not in all eternity can he do it.

-Boyd K. Packer-

Men have to have something given to them to make them saviors of men, but not mothers, not women. They are born with an inherent right, an inherent authority, to be saviors of human souls...and the regenerating force in the lives of God's children.

-Matthew Cowley-

God planted within women something divine.

-Gordon B. Hinckely-

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when are bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.

-Joseph Smith, Jr.-

All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.

-Joseph Smith, Jr.-

Happiness is a journey, not a destination. Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end. For then the journey is over and it is too late. The time for happiness is today, not tomorrow.

-Joseph Smith, Jr.-

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

-Gordon B. Hinckley-

God left the world unfinished--the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved--that man may know the joys of creation.

-Thomas S. Monson-