Jeffrey R. Holland Quotes

Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.

Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony!

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.

So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.

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.

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.

Nowhere can anyone find a #‎ quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his or her own #‎ soul . We need to turn some things down and turn some things off. We need to be #‎ quiet .

Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.

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

Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.

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)

When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.

It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ's Atonement shines.

It is obvious that the bumper sticker question "What would Jesus do?" will not always bring a popular response.

If we want it, we can enjoy the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best that is within us." --sat. afternoon 4/3/10 lds general conference

Don't delay. It's getting late.

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.

The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.

The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education.

Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior's atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah.

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.

Don't do anything stupid.

No one has failed who keeps trying and keeps praying.

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.

We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.

A noble deed is a step toward God.

God never leaves us alone, never leaves us unaided in the challenges that we face.

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.

To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.

True love BLOOMS when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves.

May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.

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.

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

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.

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.

I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.

The crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty

Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet

Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.

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!

Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?

Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

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.

The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul.

No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven.

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.

Although I may not be my brother's keeper, I am my brother's brother, and 'because I have been given much, I too must give.'