When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.
In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.
Have a good physical outlet of some sport or exercise. Overcome evil with good. You can overcome many evil inclinations through good physical exertion and healthful activities. A healthy soul...is in better condition to overthrow the devil.
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.
When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties.
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face.
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.
No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.
we're too great a nation to allow the evil-doers to affect our soul and our spirit.
The Devil is a liar. He cannot win. And that's all we're seeing is a bunch of devils [Donald Trump]. So we have to pray and just look out for one another. Keep your chest out, stick your head up and walk tall.
Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.
Prosperity is a more refined and severer test of character than adversity as one hour of summer sunshine produces greater corruption than the longest winter day.
Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to leaven the loaf of evil: it leaves a loophole, albeit a small one, for a future escape from bondage.
I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat" (3 Nephi 18:18). If you will earnestly seek guidance from your Heavenly Father, morning and evening, you will be given the strength to shun any temptation.
