We are not diminished when someone else is added upon. Jeffrey R. Holland More Quotes by Jeffrey R. Holland More Quotes From Jeffrey R. Holland No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven. Jeffrey R. Holland quickeningspiritheaven 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. Jeffrey R. Holland loyaltycleverchildren 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) Jeffrey R. Holland byuadversityheart The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul. Jeffrey R. Holland questshumanssoul The Church is not a fast food outlet. We can't always have it our way. Some day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ, and that salvation can only come His way. Jeffrey R. Holland kneeschurchjesus Just because God is God, just because Christ is Christ, they cannot do other than care for us and bless us and help us if we will but come unto them, approaching their throne of grace in meekness and lowliness of heart. They can't help but bless us. They have to. It is their nature. Jeffrey R. Holland thronesgraceheart In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women in at least this one way now—by offending not in word, or more positively put, by speaking with a new tongue, the tongue of angels. Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world today. Jeffrey R. Holland angelchristianmen Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet in part because righteousness was always supposed to accompany it. Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world. Jeffrey R. Holland love-isworldneeds 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. Jeffrey R. Holland teachinghomechildren 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. Jeffrey R. Holland faithfulagefather Don't do anything stupid. Jeffrey R. Holland stupid Though we may feel we are "like a broken vessel," as the Psalmist says (Psalms 31:12), we must remember, that vessel is in the hands of the divine potter. Broken minds can be healed just the way broken bones and broken hearts are healed. While God is at work making those repairs, the rest of us can help by being merciful, nonjudgmental, and kind. Jeffrey R. Holland brokenhearthands (Phillipians 3:14) No Lots wife here. No looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah here. Paul knows it is out there in the future, up ahead wherever heaven is taking us, that we will win "the prize" of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Jeffrey R. Holland wifewinningjesus 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. Jeffrey R. Holland governmentpeoplefall Whatever else the Book of Mormon makes clear, it makes clear that every soul in every dispensation is precious to God, and therefore no age or era was-or is-left without its witness of Christ. Jeffrey R. Holland soulagebook 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. Jeffrey R. Holland barsjudgementbook The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion primarily because it is the most extended and definitive witness we have of the Lord Jesus Christ-of our Alpha and Omega, the True Vine, the Bishop and Shepherd of our Soul, he who is the Key Stone, the Chief Cornerstone of the eternal gospel. Jeffrey R. Holland keysbookjesus 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. Jeffrey R. Holland safetywaterjesus Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality. Jeffrey R. Holland passioncausesjesus The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. Jeffrey R. Holland truth-ismiraclecommon
