Russell M. Nelson
Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!Collection: Faith
In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.Collection: Legal
As a medical doctor and cardiac surgeon, I had the responsibility of performing open-heart surgery on President Spencer W. Kimball in 1972, when he was Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.Collection: Medical
Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.Collection: Amazing
It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.Collection: Work
When we speak of faith - the faith that can move mountains - we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.Collection: Faith
I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.'Collection: Fear
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.Collection: Death
Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.Collection: Success
Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God's great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!Collection: Marriage
We need women who are devoted to shepherding God's children along the covenant path toward exaltation; women who know how to receive personal revelation, who understand the power and peace of the temple endowment; women who know how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families; women who teach fearlessly.Collection: Peace
Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.Collection: Death
Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?Collection: Religion
Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.Collection: Medical
No, we don't own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.Collection: Love
Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.Collection: Food
Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.Collection: Intelligence
A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.Collection: God
As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.Collection: Health
While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His children.Collection: Family
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.Collection: Religion
Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.Collection: Experience
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.Collection: Age
As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.Collection: Death
You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.Collection: Change
Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.Collection: Respect
Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God's eternal plan, families can be together forever.Collection: Faith
The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.Collection: Family
The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.Collection: Freedom
Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.Collection: Happiness
The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man's ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man's ways are not and never will be the Lord's ways.Collection: Business
Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?Collection: Strength
One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.Collection: Religion
Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.Collection: Success
To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.Collection: Power
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.Collection: God
In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.Collection: Religion
My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.
Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.
The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation.
Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.
Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.
We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!
Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.
A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God - more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.
Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.
We teach that God's love for His children is infinite.
My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.
How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.
When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, 'What sign do I want to give to God?' That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.