Quotes from Jeffrey R. Holland

HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.

Whatever your struggle, my brothers and sisters-mental or emotional or physical or otherwise-do not vote against the preciousness of life by ending it!

We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life.

Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.

God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.

And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.

However many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made, ... you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love.

Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

Trust God and Believe in good things to come!

Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.

I testify of the renewing power of God's love and the miracle of His grace. His concern is for the faith at which you finally arrive, not the hour of the day in which you got there.

The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.

The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

I may not be my brothers keeper, but I am my brother's brother.

True love BLOOMS when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves.

The crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty

Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet

Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.

Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we.

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.