Religious Leader Quotes

Pope John Paul II

Mother Teresa

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Pope John Paul I

Saint Peter

Ignatius of Loyola

Joseph Smith, Jr.

I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.

Pope John Paul II

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

If the eternal King started in Bethlehem, so will anyone who follows Him.

It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it is directed towards 'having' rather than 'being,' and which wants to have more, not in order to be more but in order to spend life in enjoyment as an end in itself.

Pope John Paul I

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.

Halford E. Luccock

The time [will] come when a thousand students [will] be assembled on the hill for the purpose of seeing an education.

David Jewett Waller, Sr.

To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man, — no more, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in the rough.

William Croswell Doane

Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.

God never asks us to give what we do not have... But he cannot use what we will not give.

Richard Stearns (World Vision)

None know how to prize the Saviour, but such as are zealous in pious works for others.

Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

By our very endowment as children of an Eternal Father we have had implanted within our souls the urgency to be free. It is natural for us to want to be accountable for our own fates because there is a whispering within us confirming that this accountability is absolutely essential to the attainment of our eternal destiny.

I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities

Being a Christian is not essentially about joining a church or being a nice person, but about following in the footsteps of Jesus, taking his teachings seriously, letting his Spirit take the lead in our lives, and in so doing helping to change the world from our nightmare into God's dream.

If I ask Him to receive me,
Will He say me nay?
Not till earth, and not till heaven
Pass away.

Stephen the Hymnographer

It does not matter what your circumstances are; the instant you begin to thank God, even though your situation has not changed, you begin to change. The key that unlocks the gates of heaven is a thankful heart. Entrance into the courts of God comes as you simply begin to praise the Lord.

Francis Frangipane

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.

Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Just as a tower defends a fortress, so humility of heart defends bodily chastity from the darts of fornication.

Anthony of Padua

Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling.

God's great work in man takes place in the Interior. The order that appears and is shown outside is the work and effect of the order inside.

Francisco Palau

I would not seek to force people to live up to my ideals but rather love them into doing the thing that is right.

George Albert Smith