“Principles are concentrated truth, packaged for application to a wide variety of circumstances. A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and compelling circumstances.” Richard G. Scott
“It’s not your fault you’re this way, but it’s your responsibility to work on it.” BYU Professors Gary M. Burlingame and Kara I. Cattani
“Speak to yourself in loving ways and talk about yourself with others as gently as you would speak about another person with your same challenges.” — Kara Cattani
Personal example is more eloquent than exhortation. There is a real difference between false freedom and true freedom. It is the difference between doing what we wish(want) to do and doing what we ought(should) to do. License to do wrong does not justify wrongdoing.
We must have inner strength to protect personal freedom and preserve us from the yoke of bondage. (surrender to pornography or to chemical compounds)
To develop self-discipline, we must confine our individual actions within the delimiting bounds prescribed by the law of the land, moral law, and divine law. When one’s individual actions are sternly disciplined to conform within those limits, then the full exercise of one’s freedom can be enjoyed. (“Liberty, License, and Law,” America’s Freedom Festival, Provo, Utah, July 1,1990) Russell M.Nelson
“By increments so exquisitely gradual that they might have passed unnoticed, I could have ended up being totally untrue to myself and living a life I hated.” Founder of Liberty Media Peter Barton
“There is no going back, but only forward. Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can.” Thomas S. Monson