“That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives and our character. What we are worshipping we are becoming.”
LDS Quotes on Change
“That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives and our character. What we are worshipping we are becoming.”
“Conversion does not normally come all at once. . . . It comes in stages, until a person becomes at heart a new person.”
| “Bringing Peace and Healing to Your Soul”
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.
“Men and women who turn their lives over to God will find out that he can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He will deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their souls, raise up friends, and pour out peace.”
| The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p. 361
| "Latter-day Saints Keep on Trying"
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.
“Have ye received his image in your countenances?” “Christ, here and now, in that very room where you are saying your prayers, is doing things to you. It is not a question of a good man who died two thousand years ago. It is a living Man, still as much a man as you, and still as much God as He was when He created the world, really coming and interfering with your very self; killing the old natural self in you and replacing it with the kind of self He has. At first, only for moments. Then for longer periods. Finally, if all goes well, turning you permanently into a different sort of thing; into . . . a being which, in its own small way, has the same kind of life as God; which shares His power, joy, knowledge and eternity.”
| Mere Christianity
“Without the Redeemer, … repentance becomes simply miserable behavior modification.”