Marion G. Romney Quotes

#1. How can we give if there is nothing there? ... Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. Teaching cannot come from the unlearned. And most important of all, spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak.

Marion G. Romney

#2. The possession of a true testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.

Marion G. Romney

#3. Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.

Marion G. Romney

#4. Self-Reliance is a prerequisite to the complete freedom to act.

Marion G. Romney

#5. Forgiveness is as wide as repentance.

Marion G. Romney

#6. There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor and humbles the rich. In the process, both are sanctified.

Marion G. Romney

#7. The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.

Marion G. Romney

#8. Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.

Marion G. Romney

#9. We will see the day when we live on what we produce.

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#10. Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature ... I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.

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#11. Prayer is the instrument of miracles.

Marion G. Romney

#12. The whole problem is spirituality-not finances. Spiritually strong = welfare strong.

Marion G. Romney

#13. Pondering is, in my feeling, a form of prayer.

Marion G. Romney

#14. The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.

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#15. Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'

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#16. The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.

Marion G. Romney

#17. While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet.

Marion G. Romney

#18. We must live so that men seeing us will know that we are living by the principles of eternal life.

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#19. My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.

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#20. No, the Lord doesn't really need us to take care of the poor, but we need this experience; for it is only through our learning how to take care of each other that we develop within us the Christlike love and disposition necessary to qualify us to return to his presence.

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#21. It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.

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#22. When we resist the counsel of the Lord, we manifest stubbornness and rejection of his inspired guidance.

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#23. Now there are those among us who are trying to serve the Lord without offending the devil.

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#24. Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.

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#25. Living the gospel of Jesus Christ is the price of-and the only way to-peace.

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#26. Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sin-sick soul.

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#27. It is perfectly evident ... that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding upon us as any other commandment

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