Top 61 Robert D. Hales Quotes
#1. I promise you in [Jesus] name that if you pray with a sincere desire to hear your Heavenly Father's voice in the messages of this conference, you will discover that He has spoken to you to help you, to strengthen you, and to lead you home into His presence.
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#2. Pursue your goals with all your heart, might, mind and strength. You are doomed to failure if you pursue them in a vacillating manner
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#3. To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.
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#5. When you cannot do what you have always done, then you only do what matters most.
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#6. The greatest blessings of general conference come to us after the conference is over. Remember the pattern recorded frequently in scripture: we gather to hear the words of the Lord, and we return to our homes to live them.
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#7. Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy.
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#8. When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.
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#9. By choosing to be in His kingdom, we separate - not isolate - ourselves from the world.
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#10. Come walk the path that leads to eternal happiness, joy, and everlasting life in the kingdom of our Heavenly Father.
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#11. The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.
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#12. What is said is not as important as what [you] hear and what [you] feel.
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#13. It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.
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#14. We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very dark and dreary world.
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#15. Work together as a family, even if it may be faster and easier to do the job ourselves. Talk with our sons and daughters as we work together.
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#16. We are all welcome to come into the waters of baptism. He was baptized to witness to His Father that He would be obedient in keeping His commandments. He was baptized to show us that we should receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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#18. Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.
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#19. Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.
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#20. Oh, how we need general conference! Through conferences our faith is fortified and our testimonies deepened. And when we are converted, we strengthen each other to stand strong amid the fiery darts of these last days.
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#21. As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.
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#23. As I recognized the beauty of the earth, I knew that my Heavenly Father loved me.
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#24. When young men prepare, bless, and pass the sacrament in worthiness and reverence, they literally follow the example of the Savior at the Last Supper and become like Him.
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#25. Gratitude on a daily basis means we express appreciation for what we have now without qualification for what we had in the past or desire in the future.
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#26. Light and darkness cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
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#27. Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness.
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#28. Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.
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#29. How we live our religion is far more important than what we may say about our religion.
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#30. We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.
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#31. Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values.' A true friend doesn't ask us to choose between the gospel and his or her friendship ... A true friend strengthens us to stay on the strait and narrow path.
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#32. True friends don't hold us back spiritually or pull us down when we're trying to rise and progress. True friends protect us. True friends help us be better than we would be on our own.
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#33. The Lord said, 'If ye love me, keep my commandments.' (John 14:15.) Our obedience to the laws, ordinances, and commandments is the greatest expression of love and gratitude that we can bestow upon him.
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#34. What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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#35. As we follow [the Savior], He blesses us with gifts, talents, and the strength to do His will, allowing us to go beyond our comfort zones and do things we've never before thought possible.
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#36. We learn to endure to the end by learning to finish our current responsibilities, and we simply continue doing it all of our lives. We cannot expect to learn endurance in our later years if we have developed the habit of quitting when things get difficult now.
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#37. We will not fall, we will not fail; for our homes will be founded on Jesus Christ.
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#38. Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.
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#39. If you are there for the Lord, He will be there for you. If you love Him and keep His commandments, you will have His Spirit to be with you and guide you.
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#40. The blessings we enjoy now are because we made the choice to follow the Savior before this life. To everyone hearing or reading these words, whoever you are and whatever your past may be, remember this: it is not too late to make that same choice again to follow him.
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#41. The gift of the Holy Ghost, given to us when we are confirmed, gives us the ability to discern the difference between the giving ways of the kingdom of God and the taking practices of the world.
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#42. Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life
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#43. Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil
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#44. He set the example for all of us to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father.
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#45. As disciples of Jesus Christ we have a responsibility to work together with like-minded believers, to raise our voices for what is right.
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#46. Through the Savior's Atonement and by following these basic patterns of faithfulness, we receive "power from on high" to face the challenges of life. We need this divine power today more than ever.
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#47. We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.
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#48. Never make someone have to choose between your ways and the Lord's ways. And always make sure that you're making it easier to live God's commandments for those who are by your side and who are your friends.
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#49. Be the kind of friend who makes it easier for others to obey the commandments when they are with you.
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#50. It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.
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#51. When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our total allegiance to the kingdom of God.
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#52. I want to help you "fly right" in the gathering storms of the last days. You are the pilots. You are responsible to think about the consequences of every choice you make. Your righteous choices will keep you from getting off course.
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#53. We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.
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#54. In the Lord's service the path is not always easy ... But in serving Him, we discover that His hand is truly over us.
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#55. As our understanding of obedience deepens, we recognize the essential role of agency.
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#56. The more I live, the more I recognize that the teaching moments in my youth, especially those provided by my parents, have shaped my life and made me who I am. It is impossible to overestimate the influence of parents who understand the hearts of their children.
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#57. To the young members of the Church, I promise that if you will listen, you will feel the Spirit well up within you. The Lord will tell you what He wants you to do with your life.
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#58. Your Heavenly Father needs you. His work, under the direction of our Savior Jesus Christ, needs what you are uniquely prepared to give.
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#59. Study the scriptures; pray morning and night; keep a near, well-groomed appearance; follow a schedule; set and achieve goals; be honest in all your dealings; keep commandments; and always live the standards revealed by prophets.
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#60. Often we do not know what we can endure until after a trial of our faith.
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#61. Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!
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