Quotes from David B. Haight

Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.

Life is a competition... Not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives. Each to master some weakness of yesterday. Each day to repair a mistake; Each day to surpass ourselves.

The Lord never asks the impossible. Often the difficult, but never the impossible.

Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned into the image of all we have seen and heard, known and meditated; and if we learn to live with all that is fairest and purest and best , the love of it all will in the end become our life.

Don't be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God's commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

You young men of the priesthood, resolve to live the way you should. Don't be caught up in some of the silly things that are going on in the world, but bear in mind what has been given to you.

God accomplishes His purposes heart to heart.

To develop good thoughts and acts, we must live and associate with good people.

I hope that we have grateful hearts for the knowledge that we have and the testimonies we have and for the feelings we have.

If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.

Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good.

How did they manage to raise their children in righteousness? The principles become part of their lives, and when it becomes part of their life, it isn't difficult to do.

The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, "There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'"

Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.

It is the love that we give and the service we render that really is the great payoff.

Knowing that we should love is not enough. But when knowledge is applied through service, love can secure for us the blessings of heaven.

Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.