Browsing Quotes With Tag: love (137)
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Your continued spiritual growth and eternal progress are very much wrapped up in your relationships – in how you treat others. Do you indeed love others and become a blessing in their lives? Isn’t the measure of the level of your conversion how you treat others? The person who does only things in the church that concern himself alone will never reach the goal of perfection.
Speaker: Robert J. WhettenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of ‘Mormonism;’ [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Fill your minds with truth.
Fill your hearts with love.
Fill your lives with service.Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We cannot fake love. It must become part of us.
Speaker: John H. GrobergPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When the satisfaction of the security of another person becomes as significant to one as is one’s own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Brothers and sisters, I believe that if we could truly understand the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, we would realize how precious is one son or daughter of God. I believe our Heavenly Father’s everlasting purpose for His children Is generally achieved by the small and simple things we do for one another. At the heart of the English word ‘atonement’ is the word ‘one.’
If all mankind understood this, there would never be anyone with whom we would not be concerned, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, or social or economic standing. We would strive to emulate the Savior and would never be unkind, indifferent, disrespectful, or insensitive to others.Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I believe our problems, almost every one, arise out of the homes of the people. If there is to be reformation, if there is to be a change, if there is to be a return to the old and sacred values, it must begin in the home.
It is here that truth is learned, that integrity is cultivated, that self-discipline is instilled, and that love is nurtured.Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Without a strong commitment to the Lord, an individual is more prone to have a low level of commitment to a spouse. Weak commitments to eternal covenants lead to losses of eternal consequence.
If Satan can get you to love anything – fun, flirtation, fame, or fortune – more than a spouse or the Lord with whom you have made sacred covenants to endure, the adversary begins to triumph.Speaker: Russell M. NelsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to do your best – such a woman is worthy of your love.
Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank,
Creation’s blot, creation’s blank.Speaker: Thomas GibbonsSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Interestingly, a person can allow himself to be vulnerable on the surface of his life if he still retains a deep God/Christ-centered invulnerability. Then he can afford to be gentle and soft, to give and take, to give love without demanding anything in return – and that of course leaves him open to rebuffs and disappointments on occasion. But when a person is deeply vulnerable, centered on something other than God and therefore not securely rooted, he can’t afford to be vulnerable on the surface, or he risks being simply wiped out.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Inevitably, any time we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. Often the best defense is a good offense, and sometimes this manifests itself in cynicism, the defense of the mind, for when we expect nothing we will never be disappointed. So the attack frequently manifests itself in sarcasm, in cutting humor, in sharpness of tongue, in criticalness, and in anything which will keep from exposing the soft, vulnerable tenderness within. Each partner then will tend to wait upon the initiative of the other for love, only again to be disappointed but also to be confirmed as to the rightness of his or her own past accusations.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We feel neither the pulse of God nor the pulse of His children unless we feel both. We can’t serve God and ignore or mistreat His children. Neither can we serve His children and ignore our common Father.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Empathy – deep, genuine listening – is risky business, and unless we are inwardly secure we will not feel that we can afford that risk, but it is certainly one of the most powerful expressions of love.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The missionary is surrounded by a very powerful, cultural, ‘law of Moses,’ as it were; that is, an external set of expectations, rules, and disciplines. These serve as the ancient law of Moses did – as a schoolmaster to bring the missionaries to Christ or to a higher law, so that they transcend the law of Moses and move into the law of Christ, where they are motivated by love, guided by correct principles, directed by the Spirit.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True love is found in the affirmation of another person’s identity and stewardship, in seeking his or her growth and good, not in interpreting all the other person’s responses in terms of one’s own needs, hungers, or desires.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Until people see and feel, they will not hear. If they see a model contrary to what they hear – if they feel anger or rejection breathing behind words of love – they will be confused.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most of us perhaps have attended a Priesthood class or a Sunday school class wherein we sensed that celestial principles were being discussed in a telestial spirit, a spirit in which abstract knowledge essentially eclipses love.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you consider that we leave the highly difficult adjustment of marriage so largely to chance, the marvel is that our divorce rate is only 16 percent. An appalling number of husbands and wives are not really married but simply undivorced: they live in a sort of purgatory.
Speaker: Oliver M. ButterfieldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“’Tis not love’s going hurts my days,
But that it went in little ways.”Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!