Faith:
Makes the outlook calm,
the uplook constant,
the inlook accurate.
Faith:
Makes yesterday a stepping
stone,
today a new beginning
tomorrow a limitless
possibility.
--Anonymous
"If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in the Lord, there is no hope."
"Repentance takes care of the past, faith the future, and the Holy Ghost helps us with today."
Elder Neal A. Maxwell "Of One Heart," p. 30
"It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally."
Neal A. Maxwell (Address, BYU, October 26, 1976)
"The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality."
Melvin J. Ballard, CR 4/29:65
"Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair."
Hugh B. Brown, CR 10/69:106
President Gordon B. Hinckley has said that "of all our needs, I think the greatest is an increase in faith."
Ensign, November 1987, 54
President Harold B. Lee admonished us:
"Walk to the edge of the light, and perhaps a few steps into the darkness, and you will find that the light will appear and move ahead of you" (as quoted by Boyd K. Packer, regional representatives' seminar, 1 Apr. 1977).
Jack Goaslind, Gen. Conf., Sept. 30, 1995
"Undaunted faith can stop the mouths of lions, make ineffective the fiery flames, make dry corridors through beds of rivers and seas. Unwavering faith can protect against deluge, terminate droughts, heal the sick, and bring heavenly manifestations. Indomitable faith can help us live the commandments and thereby bring blessings unnumbered with peace, perfection, and exaltation in the kingdom of God."
Spencer W. Kimball (General Conference Report, October 1952, page 51)
Loren C. Dunn (Ensign, May 1981, page 25-26, "Building Bridges to Faith")
"Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal
righteousness.
It is always given
when
righteousness
is present, and the greater the measure of obedience to God's laws the
greater will
be the endowment of faith."
Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 264
" He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses more;
He who loses faith, loses all."
"In relation to events that will yet take place, the kind of trials, troubles, and sufferings which we shall have to cope with, it is to me a matter of very little moment; these things are in the hands of God, he dictates the affairs of the human family, and directs and controls our affairs; and the great thing that we, as a people, have to do is to seek after and cleave unto our God, to be in close affinity with him, and to seek for his guidance, and his blessing and Holy Spirit to lead and guide us in the right path. Then it matters not what it is nor who it is that we have to contend with, God will give us strength according to our day."
Richard L. Evans:
"What a glorious thing faith is! Faith! All of us would like to know a lot of answers we do not know. All of us shall some day. But it was meant that men should live in part by faith. It is a glorious thing to have it, to meet the unanswered questions, to meet the fears of life, to carry us over all difficulties -- the glorious principle of faith, the first of the first principles of the gospel."
"Darkness cannot be taken into a lighted room any more than doubt can be created in a heart where faith exists."
"In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance."
Gordon B. Hinckley (Ensign, May 1984, page 99)
The Prophet Joseph Smith taught in the Lectures on Faith that it was necessary to have "an acquaintance" (that's his phrase) with the divine attributes of the Father and the Son in order to have faith in them. Specifically he said that unless we believe Christ to be "merciful and gracious, slow to anger, long-suffering and full of goodness," that unless we can rely on these unchanging attributes, we would never have the faith necessary to claim the blessings of heaven. If we could not count on "the excellency of . . . character" (that is also his phrase) maintained by the Savior and his willingness and ability to "forgive iniquity, transgression, and sin," we would be, he said, "in constant doubt of salvation." But because the Father and the Son are unchangeably "full of goodness" then, in the words of the Prophet, such knowledge "does away [with] doubt, and makes faith exceedingly strong" (Lectures on Faith 3:1920).
"Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark. There was no visible ram in the thicket when Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Two heavenly personages were not yet seen when Joseph knelt and prayed. First came the test of faith--and then the miracle.
"Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Cast out doubt. Cultivate faith."
"These three lines were lettered on the mantel in an English hotel at the time of Dunkirk:
Fear knocked at the door.
Faith answered.
No one was there.”
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
Kahlil Gibran
"If you have faith enough to move a mountain; grab a shovel. If you have
faith enough that the Lord can move a mountain; get out of the way!"