Top 100 Jeffrey R Holland Quotes
#1. We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life.
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#2. I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept.
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#3. Believe that your faith has everything to do with your romance, because it does.
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#4. We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.
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#5. Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The world needs you. A woman's abiding trust in God and unfailing devotion to things of the Spirit have always been an anchor when the wind and the waves of life were fiercest.
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#7. There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.
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#8. So how do you best respond when mental or emotional challenges confront you or those you love? Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend ... Never, ever doubt that, and never harden your heart.
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#9. Preparatory faith is formed by experiences in the past-by the known, which provides a basis for belief. But redemptive faith must often be exercised toward experiences in the future-the unknown, which provides an opportunity for the miraculous.
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#10. Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.
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#11. True love BLOOMS when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves.
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#12. HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.
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#13. Pay your tithes and offerings out of honesty and integrity because they are God's rightful due ... Paying tithing is not a token gift we are somehow charitably bestowing upon God. Paying tithing is discharging a debt.
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#14. Just believing, just having a molecule of faith
that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be not only the first principle of His Eternal Gospel but also the first step out of despair.
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#15. If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you.
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#16. We must be willing to place all that we have
not just our possessions (they may be the easiest things of all to give up), but also our ambition and pride and stubbornness and vanity
we must place it all on the altar of God, kneel there in silent submission, and willingly walk away.
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#17. Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.
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#18. Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony!
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#19. My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.
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#20. Satan is certainly not subtle in his teachings; why should we be? Whether we are instructing our children at home or standing before an audience in church, let us never make our faith difficult to detect.
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#21. May I say to mothers collectively, in the name of the Lord, you are magnificent. You are doing terrifically well. The very fact that you have been given such a responsibility is everlasting evidence of the trust your Father in Heaven has in you.
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#22. If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.
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#23. One of the great consolations ... is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so.
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#24. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is rightfully seen as the central fact, the crucial foundation, and the chief doctrine of the plan of salvation, which we are called to teach.
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#25. God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.
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#26. Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.
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#28. Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength.
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#29. Through His grace God has dealt bread to the hungry and clothing to the poor. At various times in our lives that will include all of us, either temporally or spiritually speaking.
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#30. There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor.
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#31. We can ... start making our way back to the Father. We should do so with as much haste and humility as we can summon. Along the way we can count our many blessings and we can applaud the accomplishments of others. Best of all we can serve others.
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#32. If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)
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#33. Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.
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#35. I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.
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#36. We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!
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#37. Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is so appropriate
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#38. I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?
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#39. First and forever fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe.
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#40. In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.
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#41. He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now.
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#43. Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and it is what will keep you going.
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#44. Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.
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#45. Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the Church. Teach them that those blessings could come virtually no other way.
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#46. Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.
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#47. What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first face any tattered remnant of darkness that remains in our own souls.
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#48. We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.
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#49. In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the field of, say, literary fiction can be just plain old-fashioned destruction when transferred to families yearning for faith at home.
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#51. Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as we weep. But time is measured only unto man, says Alma (see Alma 40:8), and God has a very good memory.
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#52. You and I won't ever find ourselves on that cross, but we repeatedly find ourselves at the foot of it. And how we act there will speak volumes about what we think of Christ's character and His call for us to be His disciples.
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#53. Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.
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#54. I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our fast and free-will offerings, according to our circumstances. And we can watch for other ways to help.
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#55. God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.
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#56. The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.
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#58. We must never, in any age or circumstance, let fear and the father of fear (Satan himself) divert us from our faith and faithful living.
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#59. Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.
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#61. Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.
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#62. Lesson number one from the Lord's vineyard: coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image. So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.
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#63. When life is hard, remember - we are not the first to ask, 'Is there no other way?
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#64. No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)
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#65. Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us-the pure love of Christ.
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#66. Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can, for He is the very source of the light you seek. He does love you, and He knows your fears. He hears your prayers. He is your Heavenly Father, and surely He matches with His own the tears His children shed.
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#67. Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him.
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#68. If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort. If you are discouraged, please know you can find hope. If you are poor in spirit, please know you can be strengthened. If you feel you are broken, please know you can be mended.
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#69. Whatever your struggle, my brothers and sisters-mental or emotional or physical or otherwise-do not vote against the preciousness of life by ending it!
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#70. Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet ... So if love is to be our watchword, as it must be, them by the word of Him who is love personified, we must forsake transgression and any hint of advocacy for it in others.
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#71. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried ... Such dwelling on past lives, including past mistakes, is just not right! It is not the gospel of Jesus Christ ... In cases of marriage and family, ... we can end up destroying so many others.
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#72. I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice ... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.
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#73. After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.
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#74. Don't hyperventilate about something that happened at 9:00 in the morning when the grace of God is trying to reward you at 6:00 in the evening.
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#75. If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey.
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#76. To lead a child (or anyone else!), even inadvertently, away from faithfulness, away from loyalty and bedrock belief simply because we want to be clever or independent is license no parent nor any other person has ever been given.
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#77. Surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don't expect it and often feel they don't deserve it.
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#78. Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend.
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#79. Hold fast to what you already know and stand strong until additional knowledge comes. You have more faith than you think you do.
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#80. Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes with open hands and open heart; lust comes with only an open appetite.
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#81. Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.
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#82. Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come.
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#83. The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul.
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#84. No one of you is insignificant, in part because you make the gospel of Jesus Christ what it is - a living reminder of His grace and mercy, a private but powerful manifestation in small villages and large cities of the good He did and the life He gave bringing peace and salvation to other people.
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#85. Be strong. Live the gospel faithfully even if others around you don't live it at all.
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#86. Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.
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#90. In a world of unrest and fear, political turmoil and moral drift, I testify that Jesus is the Christ - that He is the living Bread and living Water - still, yet, and always the great Shield of safety in our lives.
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#92. We must never let fear ... divert us from our faith and faithful living. Every person in every era has had to walk by faith into what has always been some uncertainty. This is the plan. Just be faithful. God is in charge. He knows your name and He knows your need.
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#93. However many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made, ... you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love.
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#94. God never leaves us alone, never leaves us unaided in the challenges that we face.
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#95. I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work - and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times - until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies.
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#96. In our moments of pain and trial, I guess we would shudder to think it could be worse, but without the atonement it not only could be worse, it would be worse.
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#97. No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that he loves each of us
insecuritie s, anxieties, self-image, and all.
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#98. Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior's atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah.
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#99. We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.
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#100. God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future
to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.
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