James E. Faust Quotes

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from an individual whose research has been a personal study of God and ITS ways.

I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.

What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

God had to teach me a lot of things.

I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.

I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us.

When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.