A way to safety

No one has described these years as being easy. Indeed, they have become increasingly more difficult. The world seems to have slipped from the moorings of safety and drifted from the harbor of peace. Permissiveness, immorality, pornography and the power of peer pressure cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings and shattered dreams.

Anxiously we ask, "Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide us? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?"



The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It calls, "This way to safety; this way to home."

-- "The Lighthouse of the Lord," New Era, February 2001



Gratitude for our country

May we acknowledge gratitude for our country -- the land of our birth. When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13). The feelings of heartfelt gratitude for the supreme sacrifice made by so many cannot be confined to a memorial day, a military parade or a decorated grave.

-- "An Attitude of Gratitude," General Conference, April 1992



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