Quotes by Religious Leaders - Page 2

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

James E. Faust

The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

Neal A Maxwell

All who believe and obey the glorious gospel of God, all who are true and faithful and overcome the world, all who suffer for Christ and his word, all who are chastened and scourged in the Cause of him whose we are—all shall become as their Maker and sit with him on his throne and reign with him forever in everlasting glory.

Bruce R. McConkie

In the joy of others lies our own,In the progress of others rests our own,In the good of others abides our own,Know this to be the key to peace and happiness

Pramukh Swami Maharaj

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

James Faust

Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.

Dallin H. Oaks

Obedience to commandments is the way we build a foundation of truth. Here is the way that works, in words so simple that a child could understand: The truth of most worth is to know God our Heavenly Father, His Son, Jesus Christ, and Their plan for us to have eternal life with Them in families. When God communicates that priceless truth to us, He does it by the Spirit of Truth. We have to ask for it in prayer. Then He sends us a small part of that truth by the Spirit. It comes to our hearts and minds. It feels good, like the light from the sun shining through the clouds on a dark day. He sends...

Henry B. Eyring

Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

Hugh B. Brown

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

David O. McKay

I withdrew a small card from the pouch. The front of it was filled with lines of elegant, hand-lettered script. "What does it say?" Dad asked, leaning forward. "The Four Remembers of Life," I read. "Number one: Remember, you are unique. Number two: Remember, there is purpose to your life. Number three: Remember you are free to choose what you are and what you become. And number four: Remember, you are not alone.

Gerald N. Lund

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Do you know that when one who has influence with youth- be he teacher, leader or parent- seriously weakens the foundations upon which a young person has built, by faith-destroying challenges the youngster is not yet equipped to meet, he fashions a disciple who has been effectively cut loose from fundamentals at a time when he needs most to rely on them? The challenger may himself be a moral, educated, well-meaning person of integrity, doing what he does in the name of honesty and truth. His own character may have been formed in an atmosphere of faith and conviction which, through his influence, he may now help to destroy in his young follower. "Disenchanted" himself in his mature years, he turns his powers on an immature mind and leaves it ready prey for nostrums and superstitions and behavior he himself would disdain.

Marion D. Hanks

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

Angela Merici

We must help young women immerse themselves in a selfless work, perhaps receiving little public praise or attention. Instead, they must feel the Lord’s great love for them and their efforts through the influence of the Holy Ghost.

Neill F. Marriott

For the first time in my life, I fully realized that I was not in charge. I knew that I needed to submit to Heavenly Father's will. I couldn't have what I wanted when and how I wanted it just because I was keeping the commandments. The purpose of prayer was not to tell Heavenly Father what to do, rather to find out what He would have me do and learn. I needed to align my will with His...Prayer is less about changing our circumstances and more about changing us. It is about seeking His will and asking for His help to do what we need to do."June 2013 Ensign, "Improving Your Personal Prayers

Kevin W. Pearson

Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee do not do that to them.

Hillel Ha-Babli

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I have spoken here of heavenly help, of angels dispatched to bless us in time of need. But when we speak of those who are instruments in the hand of God, we are reminded that not all angels are from the other side of the veil. Some of them we walk with and talk with—here, now, every day. Some of them reside in our own neighborhoods. Some of them gave birth to us, and in my case, one of them consented to marry me. Indeed heaven never seems closer than when we see the love of God manifested in the kindness and devotion of people so good and so pure that angelic is the only word that comes to mind.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

Henry B. Eyring

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control ofhis mind.

Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib

We pray that as you walk the paths of life you will walk in ways that are straight with the strength to conform even though those paths be narrow.

Gordon B. Hinckley

All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.

Bahá'u'lláh

It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible, in order to provide a foundation of knowledge on which the reasoning mind of man may increasingly build.

John A. Widtsoe

Do not take someone's silence as his pride,perhaps he is busy fighting with his self

Ali Ibn Abi Taleb

Every breath you take is a step forward toward death. (Hazrat Ali-As)

Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib

The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow in your arms.

Neil A. Maxwell

Is it not shameful to accept God's blessings as though they were our due without thinking of the heart of the Giver, who planned them all in love for us, and giving Him the response of love and gratitude?

M. Basilea Schlink

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

Neal A Maxwell

People say, "How can God let that happen? How can God remain silent about all the wicked things that happen on earth, about all the terrible crimes that are committed?" And here again self-righteousness makes us blind and deaf.We no longer perceive how God speaks in judgment through wars and all the other troubles in the world. Yes, He is speaking powerfully. Such judgments are His last attempt to win us back in love.

M. Basilea Schlink

The most important doctrine I can declare, and the most powerful testimony I can bear, is of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. His atonement is the most transcendent event that ever has or ever will occur from Creation’s dawn through all the ages of a never-ending eternity.

Bruce R. McConkie

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums.The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

Ezra Taft Benson

As Adam brought death, so Christ brought life; as Adam is the father of mortality, so Christ is the father of immortality.

Bruce R. McConkie

A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

Don´t count the days. Make the days count.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.

Gordon B. Hinckley

With the word "Repent" He was beckoning to us as the Savior, offering us His love and salvation. But behind this word we can also see the grief of God that His children have turned away from Him.

M. Basilea Schlink

Life is not a funfair, life is a warfare

David O. Oyedepo

Sing and rejoice ye children of the day and the light; for the Lord is at work in this thick night of darkness that may be felt: and the Truth doth flourish as the rose, and lilies do grow among the thorns and the plants atop the hills, and upon them the lambs doth skip and play.

George Fox

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy. We do not live alone - in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbor's wretchedness. 'Love they neighbor' is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.

Thomas S. Monson

I believe the time has come for us as disciples of Christ to use these inspired tools appropriately and more effectively to testify of God the Eternal Father, His plan of happiness for His children, and His Son, Jesus Christ, as the Savior of the world; to proclaim the reality of the Restoration of the gospel in the latter days; and to accomplish the Lord’s work.

David A. Bednar

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

Neal A Maxwell

By choosing our path, we choose our destination.

Thomas S. Monson

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.

David O. McKay

The spirit of contrition and repentance has by and large become foreign to us. Repentance implies a turning to God. Instead of repenting, however, we demand that God adjust to our modern concepts.Because the spirit of contrition and repentance is missing, church services , evangelizations and other Christian meetings often lack power and cannot move the listeners to tears of contrition. How very much we, the members of the Body of Christ, have hardened our hearts!We no longer want to see sin for what it is. When God is dishonoured and blasphemed and His commandments are abandoned, we do not regard it as such. Nor do we see that when God Himself is declared dead in His Church and His commandments are no longer regarded as binding, these are the signs of the times that Jesus said we should watch for.

M. Basilea Schlink

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

William J. H. Boetcker

Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.

Mirza Tahir Ahmad

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

Gordon B. Hinckley

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

David O. McKay

Christlike attributes come into our lives as we exercise our agenncy righteously.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

Brigham Young

Forgiveness comes more readily when, we have faith in God and trust in His word. Such faith “enables people to withstand the worst of humanity. It also enables people to look beyond themselves. More importantly, it enables them to forgive.

James E. Faust

There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.

John H. Groberg

The more surely you rear your children in the ways of the gospel of Jesus Christ, with love and high expectation, the more likely that there will be peace in their lives. Set an example for them. That will mean more than all the teaching you can give them. Do not overindulge them. Let them grow up with respect for and understanding of the meaning of labor, of working and contributing to the home and its surroundings, with some way of earning some of their own expense money. Let your sons save for missions, and encourage them to prepare themselves, not only financially, but spiritually and in an attitude to go out to serve the Lord without selfishness of any kind.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Chose your love, love your choice.

Thomas S. Monson

To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.

Brigham Young

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