“The Spirit of the Lord can be our guide and will bless us with direction, instruction, and spiritual protection during our mortal journey. We invite the Holy Ghost into our lives through meaningful personal and family prayer, feasting upon the words of Christ, diligent and exacting obedience, faithfulness and honoring of covenants, and through virtue, humility, and service.”
“In our day the Book of Mormon is the primary source to which we should turn for help in learning how to invite the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.”
“As we strive to align our attitudes and actions with righteousness, then the Holy Ghost becomes for us today what the Liahona was for Lehi and his family in their day.”
“The standard is clear. If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing, or doing that thing.”
“We should seek diligently to recognize and respond to promptings as they come to us.”
“As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit’s influence is not always the same. Strong, dramatic spiritual impressions do not come to us frequently. Even as we strive to be faithful and obedient, there simply are times when the direction, assurance, and peace of the Spirit are not readily recognizable in our lives.”
“We should endeavor to discern when we withdraw ourselves from the Spirit of the Lord and attend to and learn from the choices and influences that separate us from the Holy Spirit.”
“Through the Father’s redeeming plan, those who may stumble and fall are not cast off forever.”
“Do not be deceived. Pause to pray. Listen to that still, small voice which speaks to the depths of our souls the Master’s gentle invitation, Come, follow me. By doing so, we turn from destruction, from death, and find happiness and life everlasting.”
“I urge you to live within your means. One cannot spend more than one earns and remain solvent. I promise you that you will then be happier than you would be if you were constantly worrying about how to make the next payment on nonessential debt.”
“Each one of us has a body that has been entrusted to us by a loving Heavenly Father. We have been commanded to care for it. Can we deliberately abuse or injure our bodies without being held accountable? We cannot!”
“Let us resolve here and now to follow that straight path which leads home to the Father of us all.”
“We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.”
“With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin.”
“To keep the blessing of that change in our hearts will require determination, effort, and faith.”
“We come to love those we serve. If we choose to begin to serve the Master out of even a glimmer of faith, we will begin to know Him.”
“What we need is faith in Him and to love Him. We must know that He lives and who He is. When we do, we will love Him.”
“All of them have to do with doing what it takes to build greater faith in Jesus Christ and so qualify for the help of the Holy Ghost.”
“We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit’s direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough that the power of the Atonement has changed our hearts.”
“Our natures must be changed to become as a child to gain the strength we must have to be safe in the times of moral peril.”
