LDS Quotes On Change | Page 3 of 6

“We can change our behavior. Our very desires can change. How? There is only one way. True change—permanent change—can come only through the healing, cleansing, and enabling power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. He loves you—each of you! He allows you to access His power as you keep His commandments, eagerly, earnestly, and exactly. It is that simple and certain. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of change!”

Russell M. Nelson | Decisions for Eternity

Topics: Atonement, Change, Repentance

“That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives and our character. What we are worshipping we are becoming.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Change, Character

“Conversion does not normally come all at once. . . . It comes in stages, until a person becomes at heart a new person.”

Dale E. Miller | “Bringing Peace and Healing to Your Soul”

Topics: Broken Heart & Contrite Spirit, Change, Conversion

Elder Jeffery R. Holland of the LDS church

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.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | Created for Greater Things

Topics: Becoming like God, Change, Decisions, Discipleship, Forgiveness, Goals, Growth, Heavenly Father, Inspirational Quotes, Mercy, Perfection, Plan of Salvation, Potential, Repentance, Self-mastery, Short Quotes

“People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, ‘If you keep a lot of rules, I’ll reward you, and if you don’t, I’ll do other things.’ I do not think that this is the best way of looking at it. I would much rather say that every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.”

CS Lewis | Mere Christianity

Topics: Blessings, Change, Commandments, Courage, Integrity, Obedience

“You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness. If there is one lament I cannot abide, it is the poor, withered cry, ‘Well, that’s just the way that I am.’ I’ve heard it from too many people who want to sin and call it psychology. You can change anything you want to change, and you can do it very fast. Another satanic sucker punch is that it takes years and years and eons and eons to repent. That’s just not true. It takes exactly as long to repent as it takes you to say, ‘Ill change’ and mean it. Of course, there will be problems to work out and restitutions to make…but change, growth, renewal , and repentance can come to you as instantaneously as for Alma.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | For Times of Trouble

Topics: Change, Forgiveness, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Repentance

“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.”

Ezra Taft Benson | The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p. 361

Topics: Agency, Atonement, Blessings, Change, Character

“God cares a lot more about who we are and about who we are becoming, than about who we once were.”

Elder Dale G. Renlund | "Latter-day Saints Keep on Trying"

Topics: Change, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Perfection, Potential, Repentance

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.

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf | The Love of God

Topics: Change, Character, Decisions, Love

“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.”

CS Lewis | Mere Christianity

Topics: Becoming like God, Change, Conversion, Jesus Christ, Natural Man