"You cannot be passive in life, or in time the natural man will undermine your efforts to live worthily. You become what you do and what you think about. Lack of character leads one under pressure to satisfy appetite or seek personal gain. you cannot successfully bolster a weak character with a cloak of pretense."

-Richard G. Scott

(The Transforming Power of Faith and Character: October 2010)

"As you walt to the boundary of your understanding into the twilight of uncertainty, exercising faith, you will be led to find solutions you would not obtain otherwise. With even your strongest faith, God will not always reward you immediately according to your desires. Rather, God will respond with what in His eternal plan is best for you, when it will yield the greatest advantage. Be thankful that sometimes God lets you struggle for a long time before that answer comes. That causes your faith to increase and your character to grow."

-Richard G. Scott

(The Transforming Power of Faith and Character: October 2010)

"We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day."

-Richard G. Scott

(The Transforming Power of Faith and Character: October 2010)

"As a result, your capacity and confidence to conquer the trials of faith is enhanced. The more your character is fortified, the more enabling you are to benefit from exercising the power of faith. You will discover how faith and character interact to strengthen one another. Character is woven patiently from threads of applied principle, doctrine, and obedience."

-Richard G. Scott

(The Transforming Power of Faith and Character: October 2010)

"When we stand at the crossroads of life and we must make a decision whether to go to the great and spacious building of the world's ways or to walk the straight and narrow path that leads to eternal life, we must realize that we cannot travel both roads - although sometimes we try."

-Robert D. Hales

(Making Righteous Choices at the Crossroads of Life: October 1988)

"As we study our problems out in our minds, patience and pondering should have an important place in our decision-making process. We should reflect on our eternal goals and not make hasty and unwise decisions."

-Robert D. Hales

(Making Righteous Choices at the Crossroads of Life: October 1988)

"Along with study and prayer, we must seek wise counsel."

-Robert D. Hales

(Making Righteous Choices at the Crossroads of Life: October 1988)

"After we have attained knowledge and understanding, it is important to feel that our decision is right. Then when we act, we will do what is right."

-Robert D. Hales

(Making Righteous Choices at the Crossroads of Life: October 1988)

"First, we start with the intelligence with which we are born. To our intelligence we add knowledge as we search for answers, study, and educate ourselves. To our knowledge we add experience, which should lead us to a level of wisdom. In addition to our wisdom, we add the help of the Holy Ghost through our prayers of faith, asking for spiritual guidance and strength. Then, and only then, do we reach an understanding in our hearts - which motivates us to 'do what is right; let the consequences follow.'"

-Robert D. Hales

(Making Righteous Choices at the Crossroads of Life: October 1988)

"Having the eternal plan as a goal in our lives, we will make eternal choices."

-Robert D. Hales

(Making Righteous Choices at the Crossroads of Life: October 1988)

"During our mortal probation on earth, we will be tested with enticements of opposition in all things. But if we are obedient and faithful to the laws, ordinances, and covenants which we accept with our free agency, of our own free will and choice, we can attain eternal life."

-Robert D. Hales

(Making Righteous Choices at the Crossroads of Life: October 1988)

"There are three important elements that will allow us to make good decisions: First, we must have an eternal plan with objectives that we have committed to achieve. Second, we need to study and pray on a daily basis about our decisions for feelings of spiritual guidance, courage, and commitment. And third, we need to examine our motives each time we make a decision."

-Robert D. Hales

(Making Righteous Choices at the Crossroads of Life: October 1988)

"The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ - whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like the Apostle Paul - is available for every affliction in mortality."

-Dallin H. Oaks (He Heals the Heavy Laden: October 2006)

"Paul later wrote that the Lord explained, "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness". Paul obediently responded that he would "rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me... for when I am weak, then am I strong."

-Dallin H. Oaks (He Heals the Heavy Laden: October 2006)

"May we keep our eyes, our hearts, and our determination focused on the goal which is eternal and worth any price we will have to pay, regardless of the sacrifice we must make to reach it."

-Thomas S. Monson

(The Three Rs of Choice: October 2010

"Unlike Alice [Alice in Wonderland], we all know where we want to go, and it does matter which way we go, for by choosing our path, we choose our destination."

-Thomas S. Monson

(The Three Rs of Choice: October 2010