Browsing Quotes With Tag: testimony (33)
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“...before great moments, certainly before great spiritual moments, there can come adversity, opposition, and darkness.”
Speaker: Elder Jeffrey R. HollandSource: Ensign, March 2000Posted: 29 Aug 2013 at 4:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Each of us has the privilege and responsibility to become fluent in the language of the Spirit.
Speaker: LDS ChurchSource: D&C Sunday School ManualPosted: 13 Feb 2013 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All eternal truth must be understood in the context of a firm testimony of the Savior. Otherwise we miss the power of the example of the greatest teacher the world has ever known.
Likewise, many of us have attained a level of obedience in which we consistently keep the letter of the law; we commit no grievous sins. As we look about us, we see that we do no worse than our neighbors, and we feel satisfied, comfortable. We are compatible with others on our plateau partway up the mountain. We like this scenic ledge where we have all the “dos and don’ts” under control.
President Harold B. Lee admonished us, “Walk to the edge of the light, and perhaps a few steps into the darkness, and you will find that the light will appear and move ahead of you” .Speaker: Boyd K. Packer and Harold B. LeeSource: (as quoted by Boyd K. Packer, regional representatives’ seminar, 1 Apr. 1977)Posted: 27 Apr 2011 at 3:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.
Speaker: Russell M. NelsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If we start right, it is easy to go right all the time. But, if we start wrong, we may go wrong, and it will be a hard matter to get right.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My own judgments, natural endowments, and education bowed to this simple but mighty testimony… His testimony filled my system with light and my soul with joy.
The world – with all it’s wisdom and power, with all the glory and show if its gilded potentates – sinks into perfect insignificance when compared with the simple testimony of a servant of God.Speaker: Brigham YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must remember that [our investigators] were among the noble and great ones who once overcame Satan by the power of their testimony of Christ.
…A missionary’s testimony invokes a great legacy of testimonies, dating back to the Grand Councils in Heaven.Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The human problem is not to get revelation, but to understand revelation. And, when they understand, to respond.
Speaker: Charles DidierPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You don’t need to prove the gospel. He needs to prove the gospel to himself.
Speaker: Charles DidierPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you know the process, then you can teach it; then you can testify of it. That is how you transform the unbeliever into the believer, the ungodly into the godly.
Speaker: Charles DidierPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Revelation is a reality to be discovered by everyone.
Speaker: Charles DidierPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We’re not here to argue… we are here to declare.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first vision is the very foundation of this church, and it is my conviction that each member of this church performs his duty in direct ratio to his personal testimony and faith in the first vision.
How well do you believe?... No man, having heard the Joseph Smith testimony can , in good conscience, remain on neutral ground.Speaker: Robert L. SimpsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Perhaps the perfect pattern in presenting faith-promoting stories is to teach what is found in the scriptures and then to put a seal of living reality upon it by telling a similar… thing that has happened in our dispensation and to our people and – most ideally – to us as individuals.
Speaker: Bruce R. McConkiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you reason your way into the church, you can reason your way out of the church.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I used to refer to the Book of Mormon as a history of an ancient civilization before and after the time of Christ; I would never do that now. This book is a compilation of teachings of prophets about the Messiah, and of the Messiah about Himself.
Speaker: Dalin H. OaksPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Few men on earth, either in or out of the Church, have caught the vision of what the Book of Mormon is all about… there is no greater question ever to confront mankind than this: is the Book of Mormon the mind and will of God?
Speaker: Bruce R. McConkiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the first principle of the gospel to know for a surety the character of God.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To share truth in difficult circumstances treasures it up all the more.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I testify that there are no greater highs than realizing that you have taught by the spirit.
Speaker: David H. BurtonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!