147 Quotes by Jeffrey R. Holland

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.

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

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.

God loves us. He is good, He is our Father, and He expects us to pray, and to trust and be believing, and not give up, and not panic, and not retreat, when something doesn’t seem to be going just right.

Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve.

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.

Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer. Ask in righteousness and you shall receive. Knock with conviction and it shall be opened unto you.

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.

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