There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
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) — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has ‘a forgiving disposition’ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change.… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share
“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“All but a prophetic few must go about God's work in very quiet, very unspectacular ways. And as you labor to know Him, and… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Imperfect people are all God has ever had to work with. This must be terribly frustrating to Him, but He deals with it.” — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
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… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, this is a divine work in process, with the manifestations and blessings of it abounding in every direction, so please don’t hyperventilate if from time to time issues arise that need to be examined, understood, and resolved. They do and they will. In this Church, what we know will always trump what we do not know. And… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share
We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
