Browsing Quotes With Tag: religious (278)
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There would not be very many broken rules if one missionary just said to the other ‘Let’s not do that. It’s not good.’
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When a missionary knows how to teach, he becomes fearless.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are more sermons in the hymn book than anywhere else.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Only the gospel will save the world from the calamity of its own self-destruction. Only the gospel will unite men of all races and nationalities in peace. Only the Gospel will bring joy, happiness, and salvation to the human family.
Speaker: Ezra Taft BensonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Refinement comes from doing what you don’t want to do, and doing it well.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do is worth all of the good thoughts, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[The mind] is the agent of the Almighty, clothed with mortal tabernacles and we must learn to discipline it, bring it to bear on one point and not allow the devil to interfere or confuse it nor divert it from the great object that we have in view.
Speaker: Orson PrattPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Somehow the Latter-Day Saints have the mistaken notion that in the end, when the day comes that the Lord will make them gods or goddesses, that someone lays their hands on their heads and, as it were, says to them, “You have now all that you need to be a God – go ahead“– this is not true. All that you need to be a God is in you right now. Your job is to take those crude elements within you and refine them.
Speaker: James E. TalmagePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You will not collect any blessing form the Lord short of your own individual personal righteousness.
Speaker: Gene R. CookPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faith is based on truth, and is preceded by knowledge. Until a person gains a knowledge of the truth he can have no faith… faith and truth cannot be separated; if there is to be faith, saving faith, faith unto life and salvation, faith that leads to the celestial world, there must first be truth. Not only is true knowledge of God a conditional precedent to the acquirement of this faith, but faith can be exercised only by those who conform to the principles of truth which come from the true God who actually exists.
Speaker: Bruce R. McConkiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When tribulations and problems come, you cannot let your faith weaken, but you must redouble your faith in the Lord… Joseph Smith… said that when the Lord sees that you are willing to serve Him at any price, at any cost, or under any circumstance, then you will have sufficient faith to lay hold upon eternal life, and not until.
Speaker: Gene R. CookPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Trees that can withstand the hurricane sometimes yield to destroying pests that can scarcely be seen except with the aid of a microscope. Likewise, the greatest foes of the individual are not always the glaring evils of humanity but subtle influences of thought and of continual association with companions.
Speaker: David O. McKayPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our ills are usually of our own begetting.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Lies and gossip which harm reputations are scattered about by the four winds like the seeds of a ripe dandelion held aloft by a child. Neither the seeds nor the gossip can ever be gathered in. the degree and extent of the harm done by the gossip is inestimable.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
…If you wish to go where God is, you must be like God, or possess the principles which God possesses, for if we are not drawing towards God in principle, we are going away from Him and drawing towards the devil.
Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How barren the host who can entertain only by serving liquor to guests, and how desolate the guest who cannot have a good time without liquor!
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whoever else suffers, every sin is against God, for it tends to frustrate the program and purposes of the Almighty. Likewise, every sin is committed against the sinner, for it limits his progress and curtails his development.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is a smart person, young or old, who will accept advice and counsel from experienced people who know the pitfalls, the crumbling walls, and the cracking dams which bring on destruction.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is better to save a man than raise one from the dead.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t do less than your best when people are praying for you.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!