Study the Doctrine

"True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior." (Boyd K. Packer)

Room for Jesus

"We are all Innkeepers who decide if there is room for Jesus." (Submitted by Lisa Gardner Robison)

Contention

"It has been our study to avoid contention, and we have never interfered with others until they have thrown down the gauntlet; and as we have not been up to the present the aggressors so we are determined for the future not to be the aggressors. (Joseph Smith, HC 5:381)

Commandments

"Be virtuous and pure; be men of integrity and truth; keep the commandments of God; and then you will be able more perfectly to understand the difference between right and wrong--between the things of God and the things of men; and your path will be like that of the just, which shineth brighter and brighter unto the perfect day. (Joseph Smith, TPJS, 254)

Religion in vain?

"It comes to show that all men's religion is vain without charity." (Joseph Smith, HC 1:275)

Kind Heart

"My heart is large enough for all men." (Joseph Smith, HC 6:459)

Book of Mormon

"Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none." (Joseph Smith, HC 2:52

Baptizing a bag of sand

"You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of the Holy Ghost. Baptism by water is but half a baptism, and is good for nothing without the other half--that is, the baptism of the Holy Ghost." (Joseph Smith, HC 5:499)

Fundamental Principles of the Gospel

"The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it." (Joseph Smith, HC 3:30)

Don't find fault with the Church

"The man who rises up to condemn others, finding fault with the Church, saying that they are out of the way, while he himself is righteous, then know assuredly, that that man is in the high road to apostasy; and if he does not repent, will apostatize, as God lives." (Joseph Smith, TPJS, 159)

They Govern Themselves

"I told the brethren, I do not govern them: I teach them correct principles, and they govern themselves." (Joseph Smith, the Prophet-Teacher, 65)

Redeeming our Kindred Dead

"The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead."(Joseph Smith, Jr.)

Truth is Mormonism

"Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it."
(Joseph Smith, Jr.)

Eternal Reward in the Resurrection

"All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it."(Joseph Smith, Jr.)

The Book of Mormon is the Keystone of our Religion

"I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book."(Joseph Smith, Jr.)

Last Days

"Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire."
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Be Honest

"No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest." (Joseph Smith)

Overcoming Discouragement

"Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the deepest pit in Nova Scotia and the Rocky Mountains were piled on top of me, I'd hold on, exercise good courage and faith, and come out on top." (Joseph Smith)

Joseph Smith Prophecy About Growth of Church

"Brethren I have been very much edified and instructed in your testimonies here tonight, but I want to say to you before the Lord, that you know no more concerning the destinies of this Church and kingdom than a babe upon its mother's lap. You don't comprehend it . . . It is only a little handful of Priesthood you see here tonight, but this Church will fill North and South America - it will fill the world . . . This people will go into the Rocky Mountains; they will there build temples to the Most High. They will raise up a posterity there, and the Latter-day Saints who dwell in these mountains will stand in the flesh until the coming of the Son of Man." (Reported by Wilford Woodruff in Conference Report, April 1898, 57) Shared at the little school house behind the Morley Farm in Kirtland, Ohio as the entire Priesthood of the Church gathered together.

Persistance

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Being a friend to everyone

"He drew a circle that shut me out Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in."
(Edwin Markham)

Member Missionaries

"Every member a missionary!" (David O. McKay)

Work

"Forget yourself and get to work." (Bryant S. Hinckley, to his son Gordon who was serving a mission in England)

Family Life

"No success can compensate for failure in the home." (David O. McKay)

Power of One-liners

"There will also be several one-liners whose durability reflects their brevity." (Elder Neal A. Maxwell)

Quest for Purity

"The condition of our heart determines how much evidence of divinity we see in the world and qualifies us for the eventual revelation of the promise that the pure shall see God." (Elder Whitney Clayton)

Rule first, then the exception

"We'd like to not take care of the exception first; we'll take care of the rule first and then we'll see to the exception." (District Relief Society President when President Packer was Mission President in Boston)

Influence of friends

"Choose your friends wisely for some will carry you, but they won't carry you back." (Brother Gopaul Sr., Chaguanas Branch, Trinidad)

Missionary Work

"I have never met anyone who did anything better than he did in his missionary work." (Henry D. Moyle, who said he would carry this quote to his grave)

Achieving Goals

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it." (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Winners

"Champions are made when no one is watching." (Elder Breinig's football coach)

Elder Ballard Tells Us to Blog About the Church

"You can't control the message, so you must join the conversation." (Michael Deaver, former staff member of Ronald Reagan)

Righteousness

"No blessing will be denied the righteous who strive to do that which is good." (President Boyd K. Packer)

Teacher's Role

"Prepare the way so students will have a spiritual experience with the Lord." (Elder Gene R. Cook)

Our Quest

"The kingdom of God or nothing." (John Taylor)

Principle of teaching

"Things that can not be taught, must be learned." (President Boyd K. Packer)

One of the keys to inspiration

"He will tell you what to do, but I am not sure he will tell you in much detail how to do it." (President Boyd K. Packer)

Write it on a card!

"I will seek to learn throughout my life by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn and I will do them." (Elder Richard G. Scott)

Proximity Principle

"You are more likely to receive inspiration when you are in the place related to the need for inspiration." (President Boyd K. Packer)

Speak Kind Words

"Think before you speak instead of saying what you think." (Reid E. Robison)

Your Personal Contribution in Life's Experience

"It would not have done for me to not have been there." (Duke of Wellington, the winner in the Battle of Waterloo where Napolean met his defeat)

Obedience is Right

"It is better to be obedient than right." (Elder Merrill Oaks)

Obedience is Our Quest

"When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that very moment, God will endow us with power. (Ezra Taft Benson)