Browsing Quotes With Tag: sacrifice (16)
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A religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation…. It [is] through this sacrifice, and this only, that God has ordained that men should enjoy eternal life.”
Source: Lectures on Faith (1985), 69Posted: 27 Jun 2012 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[The Savior] also commands each of us to love and serve one another—in effect, to offer a small imitation of His own sacrifice by making sacrifices of our own time and selfish priorities.
Speaker: Elder Dallin H. OaksSource: "Sacrifice," Ensign, May 2012, 19.Posted: 27 Jun 2012 at 8:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 24 Apr 2011 at 11:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is no love without sacrifice.
Posted: 14 Oct 2010 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It must be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the RingsPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
Speaker: Robert HenriSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Remember when making a breakfast of bacon and eggs: the chicken was involved, but the pig gave his all.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The main purpose of the Doctrine and Covenants, you will find, is to implement the law of consecration. This law, the consummation of the laws of obedience and sacrifice, is the threshold of the celestial kingdom, the last and hardest requirement of men in this life.
Speaker: Hugh NibleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Allow these people to sacrifice. Allow them to pay a price to be in the Lord’s true church.
Speaker: President AshbyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The poor will never come out of poverty until they pay an honest and a full tithing.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Any convert who does not pay tithing will not endure.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:35 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! -
A mission is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience… how can we expect it to be easy for us, when it was never never ever easy for Him!
…If you ask if there’s an easier way, you should remember that you are not the first to ask that; someone greater, grander, and more beautiful did a long time ago.Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering. His life was not free of conflict or pain, but it was free of fear and full of meaning.
Speaker: David E. SorensenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One reason the Lord illustrates doctrines with the most extreme circumstances is to eliminate excuses. If the Lord expects even the poorest widow to pay her mite, where does that leave all others who find that it is not convenient or easy to sacrifice?
Speaker: Lynn G. RobbinsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The truer measure of sacrifice isn’t so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give.
Speaker: Lynn G. RobbinsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!