Henry B. Eyring Quotes

We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.

Some people who suffer run away from God, and I know the tendency, but instead I just run to Him.

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

I challenged God. I said, 'God, I know that I'm a sinner. I know that I won't probably have peace until You're in my heart. But I will not let You in my heart until You answer me, why? Why did you take my arms and legs? Why didn't You give me what everybody else has? God, until You answer me that question, I will not serve You.'

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

There was a time when I had nothing. I lost everything.

You know... life can be like a big game of Battleship. The enemy knows where your ships are and is trying to call the right number and sink them. But he can't sink you if you're with God.

Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.