Browsing Quotes With Tag: faith (50)
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“No, the purpose of faith is not to change God’s will but to empower us to act on God’s will. Faith is trust—trust that God sees what we cannot and that He knows what we do not.”
Source: “Fourth Floor, Last Door,” Liahona, Nov. 2016, 16, 17.Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 1:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.
Speaker: Elder Boyd K. PackerSource: Covenants, Ensign, May 1987Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 7:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Thought: Which of the seven dips in the Jordan river healed Naamen of leprosy?
The gospel is a very repetitive gospel. But, it is the accumulation of simple repeated acts that bring the Lord’s blessings and a testimony of strong fibre.
Speaker: GaySource: Based off of class by S. Michael Wilcox, 2010Posted: 09 Sep 2014 at 7:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Speaker: Mary Kay AshPosted: 10 Mar 2014 at 3:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
Speaker: Joseph Smith, Jr.Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 1:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I try not to think with my gut. If I’m serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.
Speaker: Carl SaganSource: the God DelusionPosted: 20 Oct 2013 at 10:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am satisfied (and sufficiently occupied) with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.
Speaker: Thomas JeffersonSource: the God DelusionPosted: 20 Oct 2013 at 10:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your currently reality, whatever they might be.
Speaker: James StockdaleSource: Good to GreatPosted: 29 Sep 2013 at 2:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Just because you find something difficult to do, don’t think it’s humanly impossible. If something is humanly possible and appropriate, believe that it can be also attained by you.
Speaker: Marucs AureliusSource: Hurry Up and MeditatePosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The overwhelming majesty of the universe suggested a major communication problem God has with man. Our limited, finite minds could not contain many answers even if God chose to give them to us… Living by faith, then, is not simply a test, but a necessity—until we are ready to receive more divine data… When we often can’t frame the right question, and could not contain the answer if it were given, silence must be God’s only response at times.”
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: For the Power is in Them…, p. 29Posted: 09 Feb 2013 at 9:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Fear is the result of a lack of faith and an unwillingness to follow through.
Posted: 30 Jan 2013 at 3:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“[We] have had this great power given unto us, this power of faith. What are we doing about it? Can you, can we, do the mighty things that the Savior did? Yes. They have been done by the members of the Church who had the faith and the righteousness so to do. Think of what is within your power if you but live the Gospel, if you but live so that you may invoke the power which is within you.”
Speaker: President J. Reuben Clark Jr.Source: Conference Report, Apr. 1960, p. 21Posted: 30 Jan 2013 at 3:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“We believe in the separation of Church and State, but that is not the same thing as a separation between faith and politics. Faith is what we believe, politics is how we act. We are hypocrites if we fail to act in accord with our beliefs.”
Speaker: Archbishop ChaputPosted: 14 Oct 2012 at 2:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If belief be a product of the mind, faith is of the heart; belief is founded on reason, faith largely on intuition.
Speaker: Elder James E. TalmageSource: Talmage, Articles of Faith, 87-88Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What is a little thing,
Is a little thing.
But to be grateful
In a little thing
Is a great thing.Posted: 03 Mar 2012 at 12:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
Speaker: VoltairePosted: 24 Apr 2011 at 11:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Living by faith, then, is not simply a test, but a necessity until we are ready to receive more divine data. Meanwhile, we often go on asking God, as C. S. Lewis observed, questions even He cannot answer because they are the equivalent of: “How big is Yellow?” When we often can’t frame the right question, and could not contain the answer if it were given, silence must be God’s only response at times.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: For the Power is Unto ThemPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 1:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We prepare the soil, we don’t plant the seed. (Alma 32)
Speaker: Kevin HinckleySource: Education Week, 2010Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Regardless of how many people still describe themselves as “Christian” in census surveys, we live in a primarily agnostic culture. Intellectually, agnosticism makes more sense. But the downside is that when people lose their convictions about the existence of God and Satan, they are less able to have personal perspectives on what’s right and what’s wrong. They are more open-minded about old taboos, but they’re also less able to see what’s obvious (and therefore susceptible to propaganda).
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
Speaker: Dan BarkerPosted: 07 Oct 2009 at 7:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!