LDS Thoughtful Quotes
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This blog is a collection of quotes from LDS sources. They are either from LDS General Authorities or from official church publications. The...
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"Latter-day Saints are not asked to blindly accept everything they hear. We are encouraged to think and discover truth for ourselves. W...
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“I admire men and women who have developed the questing spirit, who are unafraid of new ideas as stepping stones to progress. We should, of ...
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Elder Holland, 2007, PBS interview for 'The Mormons': PBS: [You say] there are stark choices in beliefs about the origins of the boo...
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Responding to skeptics' claims that "the God of the Hebrews is a capricious, jealous, tribal God, fighting the battles of his favor...
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“Our heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive...&qu...
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"His initial declaration is affirmative and without hesitation: “Lord, I believe.” I would say to all who wish for more faith, remember...
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Sometimes questions arise because we simply don’t have all the information and we just need a bit more patience. When the entire truth is ev...
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In this Church our wards and our quorums do not belong to us. They belong to Jesus Christ. Whoever enters our meetinghouses should feel at h...
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When God speaks to the people, he does it in a manner to suit their circumstances and capacities. He spoke to the children of Jacob through ...
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But while the Atonement is meant to help us all become more like Christ, it is not meant to make us all the same. Sometimes we confuse diffe...
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Sometimes we assume it is because they have been offended or lazy or sinful. Actually, it is not that simple. In fact, there is not just one...
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I can quote scripture, I can try to expound doctrine, and I will even quote a bumper sticker I recently saw. It was attached to the back of ...
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The great designs of God in relation to the salvation of the human family, are very little understood by the professedly wise and intelligen...
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Some are lost because they are different. They feel as though they don’t belong. Perhaps because they are different, they find themselves sl...
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"Revelations will probably never come unless they are desired. I think few people receive revelations while lounging on the couch or wh...
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"The Prophet Joseph Smith confirmed the Savior’s central role in our doctrine in one definitive sentence: “The fundamental principles o...
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“Christ was condemned by the righteous Jews because he took sinners into his society. He took them upon the principle that they repented of ...
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Not every statement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine. A single statement made by a single leader o...
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“Please encourage your families, your quorum members, everyone to learn and become better educated. If formal education is not available, do...
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"We need to develop the capacity to form judgments of our own about the value of ideas, opportunities, or people who may come into our ...
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“Don’t be limited in your views with regard to your neighbors’ virtues, but be limited towards your own virtues; and do not think yourselves...
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Any religious group that values purity and morality must deal with the problem of clannishness. However, clannishness can be largely avoided...
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“Many think a prophet must be a great deal better than any body else... I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm, yet de...
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In a journal entry where Orson Hyde is complaining about black people's aspirations, Joseph replies: If I raised you to be my equal &...
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August 18, 1978 CES Religious Educators Symposium address “All Are Alike unto God” Bruce R. McConkie I would like to say something about the...
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We have all seen a toddler learn to walk. He takes a small step and totters. He falls. Do we scold such an attempt? Of course not… [C]ompare...
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Do Latter-day Saints believe they can become “gods”? Latter-day Saints believe that God wants us to become like Him. But this teaching is of...
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"I have said these things because I fear dictatorial dogmatism, rigidity of procedure and intolerance even more than I fear cigarettes,...
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You can set standards that will help you stay pure. "Firmly establish personal standards... Decide what you will do and what you will n...
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...there are so many “shoulds” and “should nots” that merely keeping track of them can be a challenge. Sometimes, well-meaning amplification...
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“[W]hile all members should respect, support, and heed the teachings of the authorities of the church, no one should accept a statement and ...
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"There's no office in the Church that qualifies the holder to give the official interpretation of the Church. We're to read the...
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From Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book: Eliza R. Snow arose and said that she felt to concur with the President (Emma), with regard to the w...
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August 18, 1978 CES Religious Educators Symposium address “All Are Alike unto God” Bruce R. McConkie Well, in that setting, on the first day...
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"The editing process uncovered Joseph’s anomalous assumptions about the nature of revealed words. He never considered the wording infal...
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“I am like a huge, rough stone rolling down from a high mountain; and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming...
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“A prophet is a prophet, only when he [is] acting as such.” “I am subject to like passions as other men, like the prophets of olden times. ...
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“Sectarian priests cry out concerning me, and ask, ‘Why is it this babbler gains so many followers, and retains them?’ I answer, It is becau...
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“It is a love of liberty which inspires my soul—civil and religious liberty to the whole of the human race. Love of liberty was diffused int...
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“I never thought it was right to call up a man and try him because he erred in doctrine, it looks too much like methodism and not like Latte...
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We make no claim of infallibility or perfection in the prophets, seers, and revelators. James E. Faust, Oct 1989 General Conference htt...
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I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inqure for themselves of God whether they are ...
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“I make no claim of infallibility.” Spencer W. Kimball, Improvement Era, June 1970, p. 93
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"...we sometimes don’t believe truth or reject it—because it would require us to change or admit that we were wrong. Often, truth is re...
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"Brothers and sisters, as good as our previous experience may be, if we stop asking questions, stop thinking, stop pondering, we can th...
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"As I grew up in Europe following the Second World War, the political system then was symbolized by a single word—division—and by a nam...
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The Saints can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for my brethren. If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die...
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The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more sense than...
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“We must understand however that not everyone is going to accept our doctrine of the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. For the most...
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“[I]ndividual orientation to the Church of the Lamb or to the great and abominable church is not by membership but by loyalty. Just as there...
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"We look at this story from a distance and smile. After all, we know what an elephant looks like. We have read about them and watched t...
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In the great Composer’s symphony, you have your own particular part to play—your own notes to sing. Elder Uchtdorf http://www.lds.org/genera...
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"We seek for truth wherever we may find it. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that “Mormonism is truth. … The first and fundamental princ...
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So, my brothers, it is your duty to reach out to anyone who appears at the doors of your Church buildings. Welcome them with gratitude and w...
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"We believe that most religious leaders and followers are sincere believers who love God and understand and serve him to the best of th...
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7 Why should I desire that I were an angel, that I could speak unto all the ends of the earth? 8 For behold, the Lord doth grant unto all na...
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“In the message of the gospel, the entire human race is one family descended from a single God. … “Every person is a spiritual child of God....
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“[God] is using not only his covenant people, but other peoples as well, to consummate a work, stupendous, magnificent, and altogether too ...
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"We believe there is a spiritual influence that emanates from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space. (See D&C 88:12.) ...
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"...we claim that God’s inspiration is not limited to the Latter-day Saints." James E. Faust, “Communion with the Holy Spirit,” E...
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“The inquiry is frequently made of me, 'Wherein do you differ from others in your religious views?' In reality and essence we do not...
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If you will go to the temple and remember that the teaching is symbolic, you will never go in the proper spirit without coming away with you...
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In a symbolic way, the teachings and rituals of the temple take us on an upward journey toward eternal life, ending with a symbolic entrance...
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To be sure, there is a risk associated with learning something new about someone else. New insights always affect old perspectives, and thus...
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Joseph Smith Translation, Genesis 14 37 And he lifted up his voice, and he blessed Abram, being the high priest, and the keeper of the sto...
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“And none are required to tamely and blindly submit to a man because he has a portion of the priesthood. We have heard men who hold the prie...
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“None of us is quite as Christlike as we know we should be. But we earnestly desire to overcome our faults and the tendency to sin. With our...
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The scientific spirit acknowledges without reserve the laws of God, but discriminates between such and the rules made by man. It abhors bi...
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It is not enough just to live, just to survive. It is incumbent on each of us to equip ourselves to do something worthwhile in society – to ...
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You are not alone on this journey. Your Heavenly Father knows you. Even when no one else hears you, He hears you. When you rejoice in righte...
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"Suppose your youth receive their impressions of church history from 'pictures and stories' and build their faith upon these al...
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"Seventy years ago this Church was organized with six members. We commenced, so to speak, as an infant. We had our prejudices to combat...
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Discussing the Endowment: "Bro[ther] Joseph [Smith] turned to me [Brigham Young] and said: “Brother Brigham this is not arranged ri...
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"Sometimes traditions, customs, social practices and personal preferences of individual Church members may, through repeated or common ...
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“We have come not to take away from you the truth and virtue you possess. We have come not to find fault with you nor to criticize you. We h...
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“Informed Latter-day Saints do not argue that historic Christianity lost all truth or became completely corrupt. The orthodox churches may h...
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“The line of priesthood authority was broken. But mankind was not left in total darkness or completely without revelation or inspiration. Th...
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"O man, what is good, and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?&quo...
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"What I understood as the gospel message didn’t match what we encountered so often with the people. There was a big gap in so many ways...
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"The being that has comparatively no strong passion to overcome ought constantly to walk in the vale of humility, rather than boast of ...
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"There is one principle I wish to urge upon the Saints in a way that it may remain with them—that is, to understand men and women as th...
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"Jacob censured the "stiffnecked" Jews for "looking beyond the mark" (Jacob 4:14). We are looking beyond the mark t...
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"Some years ago I was in Washington, D.C., with President Harold B. Lee. Early one morning he called me to come into his hotel room. He...
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In Answers To Gospel Questions Joseph Fielding Smith wrote: "... is doubtful that man will ever be permitted to make any instrument or ...
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“When we look beyond people’s color, ethnic group, social circle, church, synagogue, mosque, creed, and statement of belief, and when we try...
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I gratefully follow up on anyone’s interest in learning about the Church, but I also know that we Latter-day Saints take Jesus’s charge seri...
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“...in the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how” J. Reuben Clark Jr., in Conference Report, Apr. 1951, 154 Quoted in 2...
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The question of advancement within the great divisions of glory celestial, terrestrial, and telestial; as also the question of advancement f...
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“I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will save all...
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