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But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Every evening he should examine his heart as to what he has done to see whether he has gained or lost in his spiritual capital.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Your life will be wasted if you go away from here and have not learned that the greatest lesson of all is the lesson of brotherly love, of usefulness and of charity.

If I’m going to fall, I don’t want to fall back on anything, except my faith.

Does it seem to you so small and worthless a thing to be good and happy?

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected

In this time of doubt, they look to the United States as never before for good will, strength, and wise leadership.

But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”

No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of his mind, and yet make his life a failure.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

All the toys that infatuate men, and which they play for