This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Theology is unnecessary.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.