Robert D. Hales Quotes

We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.

Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.

How we live our religion is far more important than what we may say about our religion.

When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.

It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.

What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.

As we follow [the Savior], He blesses us with gifts, talents, and the strength to do His will, allowing us to go beyond our comfort zones and do things we’ve never before thought possible.

We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.

Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

To the young members of the Church, I promise that if you will listen, you will feel the Spirit well up within you. The Lord will tell you what He wants you to do with your life.

In some quiet way, the expression and feelings of gratitude have a wonderful cleansing or healing nature. Gratitude brings warmth to the giver and the receiver alike.

The gift of the Holy Ghost, given to us when we are confirmed, gives us the ability to discern the difference between the giving ways of the kingdom of God and the taking practices of the world.

When young men prepare, bless, and pass the sacrament in worthiness and reverence, they literally follow the example of the Savior at the Last Supper and become like Him.

True friends don't hold us back spiritually or pull us down when we're trying to rise and progress. True friends protect us. True friends help us be better than we would be on our own.

As I recognized the beauty of the earth, I knew that my Heavenly Father loved me.

Light and darkness cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

Let us not give up on the Lord. His blessings are eternal, not temporary.

Preparing for the ups and downs of life.

Your Heavenly Father needs you. His work, under the direction of our Savior Jesus Christ, needs what you are uniquely prepared to give.

We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.

Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness.

As disciples of Jesus Christ we have a responsibility to work together with like-minded believers, to raise our voices for what is right.

Come walk the path that leads to eternal happiness, joy, and everlasting life in the kingdom of our Heavenly Father.

We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very dark and dreary world.

What is said is not as important as what [you] hear and what [you] feel.

Work together as a family, even if it may be faster and easier to do the job ourselves. Talk with our sons and daughters as we work together.

If ye love me keep my commandments

Through the Savior's Atonement and by following these basic patterns of faithfulness, we receive "power from on high" to face the challenges of life. We need this divine power today more than ever.

He set the example for all of us to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father.

Pursue your goals with all your heart, might, mind and strength. You are doomed to failure if you pursue them in a vacillating manner

The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.

Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life

Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy.

When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our total allegiance to the kingdom of God.

It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.

In the Lord's service the path is not always easy... But in serving Him, we discover that His hand is truly over us.

Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.

As our understanding of obedience deepens, we recognize the essential role of agency.

As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.

Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.

Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!

Be the kind of friend who makes it easier for others to obey the commandments when they are with you.

We will not fall, we will not fail; for our homes will be founded on Jesus Christ.

By choosing to be in His kingdom, we separate—not isolate—ourselves from the world.

If you are there for the Lord, He will be there for you. If you love Him and keep His commandments, you will have His Spirit to be with you and guide you.

When you cannot do what you have always done, then you only do what matters most.