Religious Leader Quotes

He who does not improve his temper together with his understanding, is not much the better for it.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.

Vincent de Paul

As in poetry, so in prayer, the whole subject matter should be furnished by the heart, and the understanding should be allowed only to shape and arrange the effusions of the heart in the manner best adapted to answer the end designed. From the fullness of a heart overflowing with holy affections, as from a copious fountain, we should pour forth a torrent of pious, humble, and ardently affectionate feelings; while our understandings only shape the channel and teach the gushing streams of devotion where to flow, and when to stop.

The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is a radiance on the distant hill. It comes nearer--that promise of the day. The clouds roll rapidly away, and they are fringed with amber and gold. It is, it is the blest sunlight that I feel around me--Morning! It is morning!

William Morley Punshon

The Prophet said: Prayer in congregation is twenty-five levels better than a prayer offered on one's own.

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

I had thought if you are CEO, it's like you're the captain of a ship. You are bound together and share your fate with the ship until she goes down, but I realised, as the ship sank, there are people who can swim it through so well ahead of others and be saved.

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

Notwithstanding, the disciples of Jesus, excepting John the Revelator, suffered ignominious deaths, they sowed the seed of the Gospel among, and conferred the Priesthood upon men, which remained for several generations upon the earth, but the time came when Paganism was engrafted into Christianity, and at last Christianity was converted into Paganism rather than converting the Pagans. And subsequently the Priesthood was taken from among men, this authority was re-called into the heavens, and the world was left without the Priesthood-without the power of God-without the Church and Kingdom of God.

Joseph F. Smith

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Our being edified at conference depends on us. It becomes necessary that we prepare our hearts to receive and profit by the suggestions that may be made by the speakers during the progress of the conference, which may be prompted by the Spirit of the Lord. I have thought, and still think, that our being edified does not so much depend upon the speaker as upon ourselves.

Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

There can be no purity whilst the flesh of creatures is partaken of and inhumanity towards the creatures practised.

John Todd Ferrier

Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial.

No matter how dynamic a campus work, unless a whole church is "totally committed," the campus ministry's impact would be limited.

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.

It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

Henry Benjamin Whipple

There are boundless possibilities for us if we dare to act in God and dare to believe!

Smith Wigglesworth

Life is a voyage. The winds of life come strong
From every point; yet each will speed thy course along,
If thou with steady hand when tempests blow
Canst keep thy course aright and never once let go.

Theodore Chickering Williams

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.

Within a person of light there is light, and he illumines the entire world. When he does not shine, there is darkness.

Thomas the Apostle