The Power of Courage

There has never been a time in the church when its leaders were not required to be courageous. John Joseph S. Smith, 6th president of the church, said one of the highest qualities of all true leadership is a high standard of courage. Leaders of the church then should be men and women not easily discouraged, not without hope, and not given to forebodings of all sorts of evils to come. Above all things, the leaders of the people should never disseminate a spirit of gloom in the hearts of the people.