Quotes from Jeffrey R. Holland

Don't hyperventilate about something that happened at 9:00 in the morning when the grace of God is trying to reward you at 6:00 in the evening.

If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.

Hold on. Keep trying. God loves you. Things will improve.

God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.

After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.

So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.

We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.

God never leaves us alone, never leaves us unaided in the challenges that we face.

No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that he loves each of us--insecuritie s, anxieties, self-image, and all.

Surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don't expect it and often feel they don't deserve it.

I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.

I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.

Whatever else the Book of Mormon makes clear, it makes clear that every soul in every dispensation is precious to God, and therefore no age or era was-or is-left without its witness of Christ.

Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.

God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.

We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!

Hope on. Journey on. Honestly acknowledge your questions and your concerns, but first and forever fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe.

Never check your religion at the door. Not ever.

No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven.

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

Don't you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come.

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)

Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come.

The FUTURE of this world has long been DECLARED; the final outcome between GOOD and evil is already KNOWN. There is absolutely no question as to who WINS because the VICTORY has already been posted on the SCOREBOARD. The only really strange thing is all of this is that we are still down here on the FIELD trying to decide which TEAM'S JERSEY we want to wear!