Quotes from Brad Wilcox

Jesus doesn't make up the difference. Jesus makes all the difference. Grace is not about filling gaps. It is about filling us.

People who love books never have spare time!

Satan doesn't win when he can get us to cross the line but when he convinces us that there is no way back.

In this symphony that is my life, God is not content to be a member of the audience or stage crew. He is not even content to be the conductor. He wants to be the composer.

The Atonement of Jesus Christ does not just provide a way to clean up messes; it provides the purpose and desire to avoid making more messes. The Atonement doesn't allow us to ignore our appetites or pretend they don't matter, but to educate and elevate them.

When we're tempted to give up, we must remember God is long-suffering, change is a process, and repentance is a pattern in our lives.

Continuing, she said, "I know Christ can fill the gap between my best efforts and perfection, but who fills the

Just as a man does not really desire food until he is hungry, so he does not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ. No one adequately and properly knows why he needs Christ until he understands and accepts the doctrine of the Fall and its effects upon all mankind" ("Book of Mormon," 85).

The Bible is not religion; it is a history of those who had religion. The religion of those who live within the covers of the Bible centered in living oracles and the ordinances of salvation. Theirs was a religion of prophets and apostles

Changes in belief always precede changes in behavior.

Joseph Smith taught that true faith is more than knowing there is a God. It is knowing God—knowing His attributes and His relationship to us. It is knowing that He has a plan for us and that we are living in accordance with that plan (see Lectures on Faith, 3: 2–5).

I was crushed at the time," the friend said, "But, looking back, I can see that not getting that job was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Nuestra preocupación y nuestro amor deben ser constantes e incondicionales, otorgados de entrada y sin condiciones ante lo bueno y lo malo, lo correcto o lo incorrecto, el éxito más brillante o el fracaso más estrepitoso.

Since everyone could not be given a knowledge of the Savior, God gave every soul a mother. Maybe He hoped that through some of these mothers, He could give all His children a taste of the selfless sacrifice and perfect love of Christ. Perhaps it it through the love of good mothers that God prepares all of His children to one day recognize and accept the love of their good Savior.

Sacrifice is not the price we pay to earn the celestial kingdom; it is the essence of the celestial kingdom. Testimony is not the word that gets us through the gates; it is the language spoken inside. Charity is not an audition piece for the heavenly choir; it is the celestial music. Service is not a vegetable we plug our noses and have to force down; it is the celestial diet.

The purpose of the plan of salvation is not to weed us out, but to offer us every possible chance to succeed. Mortality is a time of probation, but also a time of preparation (see Alma 42:10). Heaven is not a prize for the perfect, but the future home of all who are willing to be perfected.