"Lessons I Learned as a Boy" by Gordon B. Hinckley

Season of the Savior

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

- Isaiah 9:6

Also, fitting for this season is an article called "Recognize the Foxes" published by LDS Church News.

Unity in Individual Exertion

In December 1840 the Prophet Joseph Smith wrote to members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and other priesthood leaders who were serving missions in Great Britain:

“...Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days; and in consideration of the extent, the blessings and glories of the same, let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated; and let love to God and man predominate, and reign triumphant in every mind, that their hearts may become like unto Enoch’s of old, and comprehend all things, present, past and future, and come behind in no gift, waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ [see 1 Corinthians 1:7].

“...Let us realize that we are not to live to ourselves, but to God; by so doing the greatest blessings will rest upon us both in time and in eternity.”

Excerpted from Chapter 23: “How Good and How Pleasant It Is … to Dwell Together in Unity”, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, (2007), 271–80.

A Truly Living God

"...One of the dimensions of worshipping a living God is to know that he is alive and living in the sense of seeing and acting. He is not a retired God whose best years are past—to whom we should pay a retroactive obeisance, worshipping him for what he has already done. He is the living God who is, at once, in the dimensions of the past and present and future, while we labor constrained by the limitations of time itself."

Excerpted from "A More Determined Discipleship" by Neal A. Maxwell, Ensign, Feb 1979, 69-73. Emphasis added.

Enlightening Addresses

A Return to Virtue by Elaine S. Dalton

Lift Where You Stand by Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"'We Add Our Witness'," Ensign, 1989