Change
LDS Quotes on Change
LDS Quotes on Change
| "Latter-day Saints Keep on Trying"
“The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior.”
| “Do Not Fear”
“When we’re tempted to give up, we must remember God is long-suffering, change is a process, and repentance is a pattern in our lives.”
| The Continuous Atonement
“Our task on earth is to resist the conforming of our spirit to our natural environment with its allures and distractions, and to shape our affections, inclinations, and desires in the mold shown us by the Savior. This is repentance: a conscious choice, born out of contraries, to be shaped and directed into a genuine spiritual begetting after the image of God, in accordance with the seed of divine potential in all of us.”
“It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don’t know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don’t waste them.”
| "This Day," Conference April 2007
What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.
“Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men [and women] willing to be co-workers with God.”
God doesn’t care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.