62 LDS Quotes On Service | LDS Quotations

“A friend is a priceless possession because a true friend is one who is willing to take us the way we are but is able to leave us better than he found us. We are poor when we lose friends because generally they are willing to reprove, admonish, love, encourage, and guide for our best good. A friend lifts the heavy heart, says the encouraging word, and assists in supplying our daily needs. As friends we will make ourselves available without delay to those who need us.”

Marvin J. Ashton | BYU Speeches, 30 March 1982

Topics: Friendship, Service

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Topics: Being Called & Callings, Inspirational Quotes, Leadership, Motivational Quotes, Potential, Purpose, Service

“God does notice us, and he watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs. Therefore, it is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom.”

Spencer W. Kimball | “Small Acts of Service,” Ensign, December 1974, 5.

Topics: Home Teaching, Prayer, Service

“We humans have a lamentable tendency to spend more time theorizing reasons behind human suffering, than working to alleviate human suffering, and in imagining a heaven above, than creating a heaven in our homes and communities.”

Terryl and Fiona Givens | The God Who Weeps

Topics: Being Called & Callings, Leadership, Potential, Purpose, Service

“In the performance of our responsibilities, I have learned that when we heed a silent prompting and act upon it without delay, our Heavenly Father will guide our footsteps and bless our lives and the lives of others. I know of no experience more sweet or feelings more precious than to heed a prompting, only to discover that the Lord has answered another’s prayer through you.”

Thomas S. Monson | General Conference, October 5, 2002

Topics: Holy Ghost, Leadership, Personal Revelation, Revelation, Service

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”

Thomas S. Monson | "Finding Joy in the Journey," Conference October 2008

Topics: Charity, Love, Service

“No, the Lord doesn’t really need us to take care of the poor, but we need this experience; for it is only through our learning how to take care of each other that we develop within us the Christlike love and disposition necessary to qualify us to return to his presence.”

Marion G. Romney | “Living Welfare Principles,” General Conference, October 1981

Topics: Charity, Service

Elder Jeffery R. Holland of the LDS church

We obtain a remission of our sins by pleading to God, who compassionately responds, but we retain a remission of our sins by compassionately responding to the poor who plead to us.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | Are We Not all Beggars

Topics: Charity, Forgiveness, Repentance, Service, Welfare

“The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we ‘give’… are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell | “Swallowed Up in the Will of the Father,” Ensign, Nov. 1995, 24.

Topics: Eternal Life, Sacrifice, Salvation, Service

“When we fast, brethren and sisters, we feel hunger. And for a short time, we literally put ourselves in the position of the hungry and the needy. As we do so, we have greater understanding of the deprivations they might feel.”

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Topics: Fasting, Sacrifice, Service