belief in higher power Quotes

I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.

True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior. Preoccupation with unworthy behavior can lead to unworthy behavior. That is why we stress so forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel.

Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us.

We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like a joke, in case He is in charge.

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

Never underestimate the power of a single prayer.

If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.

Put your expectations on God, not on people.

Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.

If we do our best, God will do the rest.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

If you don't have God in your life, you are nothing.

We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know-we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can trust in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and all of history.