Principles with Promise catalogs gospel principles found in Latter-day Saint scriptures with some measure of order. Unlike many undertakings in my life, this adventure did not start with an end in mind. What began as the answer to a simple question, “What are the commandments that I might keep them?” matured into this lifelong labor of love. 

During this journey I have often felt a personal guidance regarding its development. Everything from its contents to layout to cross referencing and key word selection has been guided by the quiet assurance to go in that direction.  I have also felt what I believe to have been the loving intimations of those who originally scribed these words, encouraging me to press on during endless hours of quiet retreat in my studies and as this manuscript went through its rigorous development.  It is their words, not mine that make Principles with Promise another beacon, a promise that God loves us and governs our lives according to laws irrevocably decreed before the foundation of the world. D&C 130:20

Collectively, these principles seem to have a natural organization or order, and though each principle is independently declared at times, they are all interrelated in some way.  I have often described that order as being analogous to a rainbow with its many colors blending one into another – only this rainbow begins with a white light emanating outward from the center to the magnificent colors representing the principles that govern our world and our relationships with God, our fellowman, ourselves, our governments, the building of God’s kingdom, and the priesthood. 

While Principles with Promise has captured thousands of principles cataloged under more than nineteen hundred key words, the work is not finished when this book is published – rather, it is like the rainbow with its endless array of colors and whose end you can never quite see.  The Lord willing, I will continue working on its next edition, a multi-hued version filled with all of the feedback received from you, the reader, on how to make it better, more complete, more correct.

So here it is, a new kind of concordance to help you navigate your own sweet journey through the scriptures to understand the principles that govern life – God given principles that are unchanging, universal and eternal.  It is my own personal experience that each opportunity taken to review, study or search these principles is another step towards learning, and more especially knowing for yourself what portion of them belongs to you. TPJS.

May God bless you with grace divine along your way.

Sincerely – Vinny DiGirolamo