Rules have a way of pushing conscience back...

"Rules are useful...but these must merely mark where the borders of conscience end. Rules have a way of pushing conscience back, and yet further back."

Neal A. Maxwell,
Of One Heart, p. 24, 1975
(Republished in 2006 as The Enoch Letters)

We are mortal beings living in this physical world....

“Things of the Spirit need not – indeed should not – require our uninterrupted time and attention. Ordinary work-a-day things occupy most of our attention. And that is as it should be. We are mortal beings living in this physical world. Spiritual things are like leavening. By measure they may be very small, but by influence they affect all that we do.”

Boyd K. Packer, October 1989 general conference

Small Things...Create an Eternal Family

"In that most important of places, our homes, we learn best how it is that “out of small things proceedeth that which is great,” for life at home is a series of small things that combine to create an eternal family.

Virginia U. Jensen,
“Ripples,” Ensign, Nov 2000, 92–94

When you have done [your] best...

“When you have done the best you can, be satisfied and don’t look back. Rather than berate yourself for what you didn’t do, congratulate yourself for what you did.”

-- M. Russell Ballard, November 1991 Ensign

Security vs liberty...

“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.”

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

Benjamin Franklin

Pursuit of happiness...

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

Benjamin Franklin

Battle every day..[for] the Celestial Kingdom

Found on Becky Whitaker's blog:
"These words of President motivate and remind us that we can never give up the fight to endure:

"‘The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle every day [for this sacred goal].’

"[Brigham Young, as quoted by] Joseph B. Wirthlin, “Press On,” Ensign, Nov 2004, 101."