Sublime

Isn’t this how all of us want to be treated? Leading with patient love means admonishing privately and praising specifically, and never doing the former without the latter.

I thought of Joseph Smith, who’d had as many as forty wives. Brigham Young had had fifty-five wives and fifty-six children.

the leader who sees the church as the Body of Christ will be in wholehearted agreement knowing that the health of a body is far more important than the size!

keep a testimonial brief.

This I can promise you: neither you nor your children conform to the ideas other people are trying to foist on you. You are the unique creations of God, and any attempt to pin you down to some idea will only diminish you. You are equal to your life. You have been given exactly what you need, not one thing more and not one thing less.

holy men of God.