20+ LDS Quotes On Growth | LDS Quotations

“The challenges you face, the growth experiences you encounter, are intended to be temporary scenes played out on the stage of a life of continuing peace and happiness. Sadness, heartache, and disappointment are events in life. It is not intended that they be the substance of life. I do not minimize how hard some of these events can be. When the lesson you are to learn is very important, trials can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining focus of everything you do. Your life can and should be wondrously rewarding. It is your understanding and application of the laws of God that will give your life glorious purpose as you ascend and conquer the difficulties of life. That perspective keeps challenges confined to their proper place–stepping-stones to further growth and attainment.”

Richard G. Scott | The Atonement Can Secure Your Peace and Happiness, Ensign, 11/2006

Topics: Growth, Inspirational Quotes, Patience, Trials

Moral creativity does not mean making up new morals. God’s law is God’s law. Rather, moral creativity has to do with the kind of creativity needed in order to be moral. It has to do with the kind of creativity needed to break bad habits. Or the kind needed to breathe life back into broken relationships. Or the kind needed to unbalance cycles of anger or violence. Or the kind needed to see past prejudices. Or the kind needed to be something more.

Adam S. Miller | Moral Creativity

Topics: Growth, Habits, Morality, Potential

“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”

Winston Churchill

Topics: Diligence, Growth, Inspirational Quotes, Potential, Short Quotes, Work

“David saw himself as a shepherd, but the Lord saw him as a king of Israel. Joseph of Egypt served as a slave, but the Lord saw him as a seer. Mormon wore the armor of a soldier, but the Lord saw him as a prophet.”

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Topics: Becoming like God, Growth, Potential

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”

Ezra Taft Benson | “Born of God,” Ensign, November 1985, p. 5

Topics: Change, Goals, Growth, Perfection, Potential

“None of us will become perfect in a day or a month or a year. We will not accomplish it in a lifetime, but we can begin now, starting with our more obvious weaknesses and gradually converting them into strengths.”

Gordon B. Hinckley | Standing for Something

Topics: Growth, Patience, Perfection, Potential

“The gift of the Holy Ghost … quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands and purifies all the natural passions and affections; and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates and matures all the fine-toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness, and charity. It develops beauty of person, form and features. It tends to health, vigor, animation, and social feeling. It invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens, and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to the whole being”

Parley P. Pratt

Topics: Change, Character, Gifts of the Spirit, Growth, Holy Ghost

“We have not yet had the slightest notion of the tremendous thing God means to make us.”

CS Lewis | Mere Christianity

Topics: Change, Growth, Perfection, Potential

“I do not expect that any of us will ever become in mortality quite so perfect as God is perfect; but in the spheres in which we are called to act, and according to the capacity and breadth of intelligence that we possess, in our sphere and in the exercise of the talent, the ability and intelligence that God has given to us, we may become as perfect in our sphere as God is perfect in His higher and more exalted sphere. I believe that.”

Joseph Fielding Smith | Conference Report, April 1915, p. 140

Topics: Change, Growth, Perfection, Potential

“One of the seven greatest heresies is that you must be perfect before you die.”

Bruce R. McConkie

Topics: Growth, Perfection, Self-mastery