"The Church is not a monastery for the……" — Jeffrey R. Holland
"The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well."
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154 Quotes by Jeffrey R. Holland
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Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so…
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I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest…
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...pay your tithes and offerings out of honesty and integrity because they are God's rightful due...Paying tithing is not a…
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Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly…
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Believe that your faith has everything to do with your romance, because it does.
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Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Face your doubts. Master you fears.
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Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he…
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Although I may not be my brother's keeper, I am my brother's brother, and 'because I have been given much,…
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Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we…
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Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain,…
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There is a line from Dante that says, "The arrow seen before cometh less rudely." President John F. Kennedy put…
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We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that…
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