“It
is my firm belief that if as individual people, as families,
communities, and nations, we could, like Peter, fix our eyes on Jesus,
we too might walk triumphantly over ‘the swelling waves of disbelief’
and remain ‘unterrified amid the rising winds of doubt.’ But if we turn
away our eyes from him in whom we must believe, as it is so easy to do
and the world is so much tempted to do, if we look to the power and fury
of those terrible and destructive elements around us rather than to him
who can help and save us, then we shall inevitably sink in a sea of
conflict and sorrow and despair” (“The Beacon in the Harbor of Peace,” Ensign, Nov. 1992, 19).
