“I am not asking you to pretend to faith you do not have. I am asking you to be true to the faith you do have.”
LDS Quotes on Faith
“I am not asking you to pretend to faith you do not have. I am asking you to be true to the faith you do have.”
“In itself, doubt is neither good nor bad. Its value depends on what you do with it.”
| Letters to a Young Mormon
“Faith is more like being faithful to your husband or wife than it is like believing in magic. Fidelity is key. You may fall in love with someone because of how well they complement your story, but you’ll prove yourself faithful to them only when you care more for the flawed, difficult, and unplotted life you end up sharing with them. Faith isn’t the opposite of knowledge. Rather, like love, faith perfects knowledge by practicing fidelity to it.”
“My beloved brothers and sisters, fear not. Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith.”
“To believe in God is impossible; but to not believe is absurd.”
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
| Is Theology Poetry?
“This life is an experience in profound trust. To produce fruit, your trust in the Lord must be more powerful and enduring than your confidence in your own feelings and experience. Your heavenly father and his beloved son love you perfectly. They would not require you to experience a moment more of difficulty than is absolutely needed for your personal benefit or for that of those you love.”
One’s life . . . cannot be both faith-filled and stress-free. . . . Therefore, how can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, ”Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!” . . .Real faith . . . is required to endure this necessary but painful developmental process.
| “Lest Ye Be Wearied and Faint in Your Minds,” Ensign, May 1991, pp. 88, 90
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