Browsing Quotes With Tag: religious (278)
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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! -
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! -
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! -
The most productive farmer in the world would be unsuccessful if he didn’t harvest his crops. Do something about your ideas. Take the initiative to share your thoughts with others and to take action on your own.
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! -
Some people operate in a spirit of contention – clever with words from much practice, but not focused on correcting their own imperfections. They focus on the imperfections of others. The Spirit of the Lord withdraws from them with their fault-finding and contentions. Unless they change, they rarely endure to the end but fall away in time.
Speaker: Robert D. HalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:25 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! -
Recognize that enduring happiness comes from what you are, not from what you have.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You are alone here, but part of your growth and experience is to learn how to find needed assistance.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
…We can share it [our beliefs] in a spirit of loving understanding – boldly and confidently, with an eye single to the glory of God – without pressuring our listeners or feeling that we have failed in our duty if they do not immediately accept what we believe.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you will pay more attention to your spiritual self, which is eternal, than to your mortal self, which is temporary, you can always resist the temptations of Satan and conquer his efforts to take you into his power.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Leaders and teachers… need to make sure that they are not simply preparing to teach a lesson, but rather they are preparing to teach a child of God.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sometimes we get so focused on bringing people to the meetinghouse that we forget we are supposed to be bringing them to Christ.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
…Councils are for counsel and the exchange of ideas, not just reports and lectures.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!