James E. Faust Quotes

Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing, or doing that thing. If that which is intended to entertain, for example, alienates us from the Holy Spirit, then certainly that type of entertainment is not for us.

I love, when I'm on holiday in cities, going into church and feeling that reverence and that kind of automatic respect: the sort of magic which exists in those kind of religious temples.

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

[Utah is] A place not desired by the wicked.

How little people know who think holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible.

In L.A., I feel God more than I do in a church.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

Either all days are holy or none are.

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

All places are places of worship to a Christian.

Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred, and that we should make of each moment a sacrament. Were we to do this we would think of the entire world as diffused with holiness. Wherever we might be would be a holy place for us, and we would see the holy, even sainthood, in everyone we encounter.

Holiness never goes out of fashion.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.