Great Quotes
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This is a set of quotes I've collected over the years. There is no particular order to them. This is the same set of quotes that appears in the text box on the top of the main page. "It is not the fact that the elders are going forth into the world to preach that is so significant, as it is the power and authority which accompany them." "I am confident that the time will never come when we shall not need vigorous men and women of faith to go into the world as missionaries" "It is true that God generally calls upon the illiterate or unlearned to bear his name and testimony to the world... But the question with me is, must the servant of God always remain an unpolished shaft in the quiver of the Almighty? I answer, No." "We are the messengers and we have the acceptable message." "Great missionaries have been characterized by their simplicity and their directness." "No great message is ever delivered without a great messenger." "The greatest missionary tool we have is that of demonstrating friendliness, brotherly kindness, harmony, love and peace in our homes and in all our church meetings." "There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world." "The first soul that anyone should bring to God is his own soul." "We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more." "If it was possible for Satan to destroy this work, he would have accomplished it in its infancy." "The apparent conflict... between religion and science arises from two definite causes: an imperfect knowledge of science on the one hand, and an imperfect knowledge of religion on the other." "There is nothing that qualifies a man so much for preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as to study the revelations that the Lord has seen fit to give us in our day." "No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of the modern prophets." "When I find a person that is good at keeping a secret, so am I; you can keep yours, and I mine." "Security is not born of inexhaustible wealth but of unquenchable faith." "Usually the Lord gives us the overall objectives to be accomplished and some guidelines to follow, but he expects us to work out most of the details and methods." "I never ask the Lord to do a thing I could do myself." "If we ever walk in streets paved with gold,... we will have placed it there ourselves." "The man who is ambitious for personal gain and personal advantage is never a happy man, for before him always are the receding horizons of life that will ever mock his attempts at acquisition and conquest. That man who serves unselfishly is tha man who is the happy man." "It is written that he who governs well leads the blind, be he who teaches gives them eyes." "I have been convinced that I was being prepared for further service. Many times I prayed that when the time came, I would be able to recognize the work for which I had been prepared, and be able to be an instrument in the hands of the Lord in performing it." "No family can have peace, no life can be free from the storms of adversity unless that family and that home are built on foundations of morality, fidelity, and mutual respect." "In choosing entertainment, we cannot be guided by the world's definition of 'obscene'. Latter-day Saints are to live by a higher standard." "Two things are important to successful team-work: healthy attitudes and open communications." "There is no chance, no fate, no destiny, that can circumvent, hinder, nor control, the firm resolve of a determined soul." "The wind and the waves will periodically interfere with our chosen course; the laws of the Gospel can bring us back on course and guide us to peaceful waters." "Labor is our capital, and the source and creator of the wealth that we possess; and I feel it a duty to say that we must stop the course that has been so generally pursued of spending time and means for nothing." "Anything invested in human beings is eternal." "It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good." "I judge people by their own principles – not by my own." "You cannot ask for a discount when you go into the Kingdom of Heaven. The full price must be paid." "He whose sights are set on the stars does not turn back." "Thankfulness is measured by the number of words; gratitude is measured by the nature of our actions." "The diminutive chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." "There are two ways to be happy. One is to increase your income and the other is to diminish your expenses." "You never saw a man in your life do a wrong thing, who was happy over it." "The man who is ambitious for personal gain and personal advantage is never a happy man. For before him always are the receding horizons of life that will ever mock his attempts at acquisition and conquest. That man who serves unselfishly is the man who is the happy man." "The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it." "Make home your hobby. For, if anyone makes a loving home with all his heart, he can never miss heaven." "Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject." "When I became excited, fanatical, and over-zealous, I mistakenly thought it was the Spirit of the Lord, but have learned better, as the Holy Ghost does not operate that way." "Unless you have the Holy Ghost with you when you go out to preach the gospel, you cannot do your duty." "The reason we do not have the secrets of the Lord revealed to us is because we do not keep them." "Causing the bosom to burn is another way of saying that feeling is a big part of the process of revelation." "The greatest manifestation of spirituality is reverence; indeed, reverence is spirituality." "I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world." "The approval of a man's own conscience is his richest earthly reward." "The Savior knew that the ox gets in the mire on the Sabbath, but he knew also that no ox deliberately goes into the mire every week." "It is service that saves." "Never has the devil been so well organized." "Satan shall be bound, and willl have no more power over the hearts of the children of men... But do you know that we can bind the Lord also by our wickedness?" "Whoever said that sin was not fun? Whoever claimed that Lucifer was not handsome, persuasive, easy, friendly?" "It is not necessary... that Satan extinguish our light, if he can simply keep it dim." "No misfortune is so bad, that whining about it won’t make it worse." "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day." "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" "Avoid popularity if you would have peace." "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." "I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day." "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax." "Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be." "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." "Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality." "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty." "To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own." "We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it." "You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." "Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty." "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." "Love is a great beautifier." "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." "Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences." "A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new." "No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven."
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