James E. Faust Quotes

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.

We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our lives. We can start with our reasonable service: prayer, studying, fasting, tithing, fellowshipping, and witnessing.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

I'm trying to make sure that for myself and for my family, I'm staying as close to the heart of God that I possibly can.

It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those who give up things for Lent and then act like it's such a struggle to perform what they said they wanted to do for Him.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

I want women to love Jesus! That is what I would give every single thing I have for, every earthly good I've got. That is the greatest desire of my heart.

'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

It's impossible to be a good Christian. If you think it's easy to be a good Christian, then you're not really trying hard enough.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

I leave to the men of God the things that pertain to the service of God.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Christian life means sacrifice.

I value the Lord more than I value my career, because at the end of the day, when we die, we face him. We're going to wish that we did more on this earth for him. And so I want to make sure that I'm doing everything to glorify him.

I do want to live my life in the right way and live my life close to God.

You are not supposed to convert anybody, that's God's job. But at the same time, you can be His disciple and live for Him and when people ask you why are you living for Him, you can show them why and profess your faith.