David A. Bednar Quotes

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

My parents instilled something greater than myself. They instilled faith in me.

We are wiser than we know.

I've tried to educate myself in the world and what's beautiful and what has meaning and is lasting. Then I just follow my intuition and see how it fits.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I also work with the spirituality of people.

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.

You know more than you think you do.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.