Top 140 Henry B. Eyring Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.”

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102. “Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. ‘Now’ can seem so difficult, and ‘later’ appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.”

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103. “The Atonement is real. As you steadily do the things the Lord would have you do, a change will occur in you, and Satan’s ability to lead you into the things that will destroy you and bring misery to you will become lessened.”

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104. “Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of Mormon.”

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105. “We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still.”

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106. “There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won’t hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.”

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107. “If you reflect often on how His Atonement has changed you, and if you give thanks often, you will find that your witness of Him gains power to touch the hearts of others. When those you invite out of your own testimony feel that witness, they will come to accept Him as their Lord and Savior.”

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108. “Conversion brings a drive to learn.”

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109. “Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people who shared the experience of learning.”

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110. “If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.”

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111. “Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.”

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112. “With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.”

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113. “The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him.”

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114. “Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down to rest can be more attractive than making appointments to visit those who need our priesthood service.”

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115. “The Lord will give His righteous servants opportunities to be bold as lions when they speak in His name and as witnesses in His priesthood.”

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116. “The children of God have more in common then they have differences.”

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117. “The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.”

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118. “It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.”

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119. “Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble.”

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120. “The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.”

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121. “With one eye on today’s blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.”

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122. “Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.”

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123. “You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn’t matter to you, but it does to the Lord.”

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124. “You may have confidence in the Lord’s service. The Savior will help you do what He has called you to do, be it for a time as a worker in the Church or forever as a parent. You may pray for help enough to do the work and know that it will come.”

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125. “Our choosing the right consistently whenever the choice is placed before us creates the solid ground under our faith.”

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126. “The Lord’s way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work.”

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127. “What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.”

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128. “One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.”

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129. “The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.”

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130. “You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations. This work is within the abilities of the most humble and the least educated.”

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131. “The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.”

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132. “God asks that we give thanks to Him for whatever blessings we receive from Him. It is easy for us to become mechanical in our prayers of gratitude, often repeating the same words but without the intent to give our thanks as a gift of the heart to God.”

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133. “For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.”

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134. “The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.”

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135. “If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God’s kindnesses to our remembrance.”

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136. “My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember God’s kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.”

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137. “We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.”

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138. “Because the Lord hears their cries and feels your deep compassion for them, He has from the beginning of time provided ways for His disciples to help. He has invited His children to consecrate their time, their means, and themselves to join with Him in serving others.”

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139. “At this and every season, our Savior invites us to join with HIM and others to offer the priceless gift of JOY.”

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140. “As we do what He would have us do for His children, the Lord considers it kindness to Him, and we will feel closer to Him as we feel His love and His approval. In time, we will become like Him, and will think of the judgement day with happy anticipation.”

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141. “That solid basis for a foundation of faith is personal integrity.”

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142. “The Lord makes his servants bold.”

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143. “Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.”

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144. “I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world.”

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145. “The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord.”

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146. “The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father’s children who were in desperate temporal need.”

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147. “It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.”

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