LDS Quotes on Work
“Wanting love is good and wanting to excel is good. The trouble comes from trying to tie them together. Pursue love and pursue excellence – pursue them with abandon. But you will spoil the joy native to each if you spend your life wanting to be loved because you are loved. Love is for its own sake. It works only as a gift, never a reward. It can’t be earned or bartered or not given at all.”
| Letters to a Young Mormon
“For members of the Church, education is not merely a good idea—it’s a commandment.”
“Start your work from where you live, with the small concrete needs right around you. Help ease tension in your workplace. Help feed the person right in front of you. Personalism holds that we each have a deep personal obligation to live simply, to look after the needs of our brothers and sisters, and to share in the happiness and misery they are suffering.”
| The Road to Character
“The majority of the revelations which are given to the children of God come when they are acting, not when they are relaxing in their habitations waiting for the Lord to tell them the first step they should make.”
“Sincere praying implies that when we ask for any blessing or virtue, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.”
| Secrets of a Happy Life, 114–15.
Man unquestionably has impressive powers … But after all our obedience and good works, we cannot be saved from the effects of our sins without the grace extended by the atonement of Jesus Christ … Man cannot earn his own salvation.
“The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.”
| History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“LDS artists must earn inspiration, just as other artists have. . . . It doesn’t come just because artists are members of the LDS church, they still must work for it.”
| “Art Is Uplifting,” 4
When faith springs up in the heart, good works follow, and good works will increase that pure faith within them.
| Journal of Discourses, 3:155
“We don’t have to work our way into grace; we have to stop working so hard to pretend we aren’t already in it”
| Future Mormon