Quotes from Jeffrey R. Holland

Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength.

Then I had the comforting idea that my first thought wasn't as painful as it sounded. However frightening it may be to realize that all of us have sinned, however frightening it may be to contemplate a just God, surely it is infinitely more frightening to contemplate an unjust God. A basic principle of Latter-day Saint doctrine is that in order to go forward, we have to know that God is just.

How grateful I was that, in addition to being just, God is able to be merciful also.

To those who are trying hard and living right and things still seem burdensome and difficult, I say, take heart. Others have walked that way before you.

Love, like individuals, is tested by the flame of adversity. If we are faithful and determined, it will temper and refine us, but it will not consume us. Enjoy what you now have. Be a disciple of Christ. Live worthily of marriage even if it doesn't come soon. And cherish it with all your heart when it does.

Repentance is not a foreboding word. It is, after faith, the most encouraging word in the Christian vocabulary. Repentance is simply the scriptural invitation for growth and improvement and progress and renewal. You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness.

So join hands and be filled with faith and enjoy life to the fullest. Embrace the promises and possibilities of this stage of life and this moment in history. Don't worry about what lies ahead. Live your life and have faith. Faith begins with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that leads to faith in everything else: faith in the future and faith in our families and faith in our prospects and our promises and our possibilities.

I am convinced that faith was designated as the first principle of the gospel because somehow our Father in Heaven knew that fear would always be with us. We have to start with faith, because fear, if we let it, can be at every turn. Please don't yield to fear. Fear comes of ignoring what we know.

Nothing in this world is more burdensome than sin—it is the heaviest cross men and women ever bear.

God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, and keep rejoicing

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

Surely each of us could sight an endless array of old scars and sorrows and painful memories that at this very moment still corrode the peace of someone's heart…

Why? Well, for one reason because of the incalculable suffering in both body and spirit endured by the Savior of the world so that we could flee.11 We owe Him something for that. Indeed, we owe Him everything for that. "Ye are not your own," Paul says. "Ye [have been] bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."12

We all need first aid. we all need an infusion every now and again. We all need hope and help and holiness, and the temple does all of that for me.

When life is hard, remember - we are not the first to ask, 'Is there no other way?

May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.

Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Face your doubts. Master you fears.

Believe that your faith has everything to do with your romance, because it does.

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

Although I may not be my brother's keeper, I am my brother's brother, and 'because I have been given much, I too must give.'

Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you.

Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.

Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength.

The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning of a Christian Life, not the end of it.