Robert L. Millet, Dean of Religious Education at BYU

BYU Devotional, February 1998

“Sooner or later you and I will be approached by men and women not of our faith—persons either sincerely interested in what we believe or else opposed to much of what we stand for. This is particularly true as the Church grows and as our influence spreads throughout the world. Perhaps it would be worthwhile for us to entertain a few questions about what we believe, questions frequently asked of the Latter-day Saints concerning scripture, God, Christ, and salvation.”

Christine Geddes, BYU-Idaho Faculty

BYU-Idaho Devotional, October 2004

“Nothing is weightier than the burden of sin. Nothing robs us of reason to rejoice more than breaking God’s absolute laws. We are mortal and by virtue of our fallen nature we have the predisposition to sin. Not many of us, last time I looked, are on a list of people to be translated. How dare we be so human? How dare we make mistakes? Making mistakes is, however, part of our mortal experience. But we need not continue in sin and error. One of the breathtakingly beautiful realities of the gospel of Jesus Christ is the gift of repentance. In the Hebrew of the Old Testament the word for repentance is shube, which means to turn. We turn our hearts to God and present him with our wills, which Elder Maxwell assures us is the only thing we really have to give him which is not already his.”

Bruce R. McConkie, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

BYU Devotional, January 1975

“When we partake of the sacrament, we renew the covenants made in the waters of baptism. We agree again to take upon ourselves the name of the Son and to keep his commandments so we shall always have his Spirit to be with us.

Baptism and the sacrament are the ordinances which open the door so that as a people, peculiar and set apart from the world, we have power to become sons and daughters of God. Obeying and conforming, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, living soberly and righteously and godly in this present world—such a way of life is the course whereby the power is exercised and the desired eventuality obtained.

In my father’s family we had a saying, ‘Remember who you are and act accordingly.’ I adopted this same motto for my family. My wife tells me that her father did precisely the same thing. Our family motto meant to us, ‘First, you are a McConkie; you have been taught the truth; you know what is expected of you at all times; you are to live by the standards of the family and avoid anything that would stain the family name. Second, you are a Christian; Jehovah is your shepherd; the Lord Jesus is your father; you are to live by gospel standards and not do anything which would bring disrepute upon him whose name you bear; you are to keep his commandments.’

Now, in the light of the principle that we are a peculiar people who have become the sons and daughters of him who is our Lord, may I suggest some specific things that will help us overcome the world and make the doctrines here involved live in us. I shall do this by presenting what we may term the ten commandments of a peculiar people.”

Thomas S. Monson, First Presidency

Fireside, November 2005

“May I provide a simple formula by which you can measure the choices which confront you. It’s easy to remember, sometimes difficult to apply: You can’t be right by doing wrong; you can’t be wrong by doing right. Your personal conscience always warns you as a friend before it punishes you as a judge. ”

Robert C. Oaks, Of the Seventy

BYU-Idaho Education Week 2005

Elder Oaks discusses the importance of the home, the chapel and the temple.