Browsing Quotes With Tag: obedience (70)
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Do you want the windows of heaven opened to you? Do you wish to receive blessings so great there is not room enough to receive them? Always pay your tithing and leave the outcome in the hands of the Lord.
Speaker: Joseph B. WirthlinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The person who does what Jesus says comes to know who Jesus is.
Speaker: Keith B. McMullinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well.
…We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. For some it may be poverty, but for others it may be prosperity. It may be the ravages of age or the exuberance of youth. The combination of trials and their duration are as varied as are the children of our Heavenly Father. No two are alike.
But what is being tested is the same, at all times in our lives and for every person: will we do whatsoever the Lord our God will command us?Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Is there something in you or in your life that is impure or unworthy? When you get rid of it, that is a gift to the Savior. Is there a good habit or quality that is lacking in your life? When you adopt it and make it part of your character, you are giving a gift to the Lord. Sometimes this is hard to do, but would your gifts of repentance and obedience be worthy gifts if they cost you nothing?
Don’t be afraid of the effort required.Speaker: D. Todd ChristoffersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What if the day of His coming were tomorrow? If we knew that we would meet the Lord tomorrow – through our premature death or through His unexpected coming – what would we do today? What confessions would we make? What practices would we discontinue? What accounts would we settle? What forgiveness would we extend? What testimonies would we bear?
If we would do those things then, why not now? Why not seek peace while peace can be obtained?Speaker: Dallin H. OaksPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The Lord is master of the unlikely, and He expects the impossible.
Speaker: Russell M. NelsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My experience is that once you stop putting question marks behind the prophet’s statements and put exclamation points instead, and do it, the blessings just pour.
I never ask myself, “when does the prophet speak as a prophet and when does he not?” My interest has been, “how can I be more like him?”Speaker: Russell M. NelsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I testify that you are among the future leaders of the earth. You are the future leaders of our society and the Church. You need not look like the world. Your personal habits should be different. Your recreation should be different. Your concern for your family will be different. As you establish this distinctiveness firmly in your life’s pattern, the blessings of heaven await to assist you.
Speaker: Robert D. HalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never make someone choose between your ways and the Lord’s ways… Make sure that you’re making it easier to live God’s commandments for those who are by your side and who are your friends. Then you will understand whether you have charity.
Speaker: Robert D. HalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When temptation comes, do not change your standards. Do not abandon them when circumstances seem to justify an exception. That is Satan’s way to hurt you by making it seem that sometimes God’s law does not apply. There are not exceptions.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To recognize the hand of the Lord in your life and to accept His will without complaint is a beginning. That decision does not immediately eliminate the struggles that will come for your growth. But I witness that it is the best way there is for you to find strength and understanding. It will free you from the dead ends of your own reasoning.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you question everything you are asked to do, our dig in your heels at every unpleasant challenge, you make it harder for the Lord to bless you.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t please God without upsetting Satan.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.
Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Freedom is born of obedience; the freedom to play the piano comes entirely from obedience to the laws of piano playing, from disciplined practicing, from sacrificing alternative activities to cultivate this talent. This is true in developing any talent, any skill, and virtually everyone accepts it as a fact. Why, then, is there resistance to the concept of obeying God, to keeping the commandments in the moral and spiritual realms?
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Keeping the commandments] is at once the most universally needed yet the most individualistic instruction possible.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A missionary once asked President Harold B. Lee, “What is the most important commandment in the gospel?” President Lee thought for a moment and then gave this profound, personalized response to the missionary. “Elder, the most important commandment of all is the one you’re having the greatest difficulty in living.”
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reading the experiences of others, on the revelations given to them, can never give us a comprehensive view of our condition and true relation to God. Knowledge of these things can only be obtained by experience through the ordinances of God set forth for that purpose.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Source: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are exhausted far more from the tension of internal disharmony – not doing what we know we should – than from hard, unremitting work. And, naturally, the very effort to escape such tension – pleasure-seeking, self-indulgence, escapism – produces more tension.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The next time someone offends you, strive for the God/Christ-centeredness and bless them in return. Pray for those who persecute you and speak evil against you. Realize that this is one of the missions to which you have been called, and don’t ask to be saved from it.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!