Top 120 Jeffrey R. Holland Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

52. “I testify of the renewing power of God’s love and the miracle of His grace. His concern is for the faith at which you finally arrive, not the hour of the day in which you got there.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

53. “I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

54. “Never check your religion at the door. Not ever.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

55. “God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

56. “Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

57. “The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue – it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

58. “After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

59. “The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

60. “Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us-the pure love of Christ.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

61. “Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

62. “The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion primarily because it is the most extended and definitive witness we have of the Lord Jesus Christ-of our Alpha and Omega, the True Vine, the Bishop and Shepherd of our Soul, he who is the Key Stone, the Chief Cornerstone of the eternal gospel.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

63. “When you are confronted with challenges that are difficult to conquer or you have questions arise, the answers to which you do not know, hold fast to the things you do know. Hang on to your firmest foundation, however limited that may be, and from that position of strength face the unknown.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

64. “Believe that your faith has everything to do with your romance, because it does.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

65. “It is obvious that the bumper sticker question “What would Jesus do?” will not always bring a popular response.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

66. “Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

67. “Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

68. “Please know that your Father in Heaven loves you and so does His Only Begotten Son. When they speak to you – and They will – it will not be in the wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but it will be with a voice still and small, a voice tender and kind. It will be with the tongue of angels.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

69. “Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

70. “Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and it is what will keep you going.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

71. “HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

72. “Somebody like you taught somebody like me.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

73. “Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

74. “If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

75. “I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work – and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times – until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

76. “Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony!”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

77. “Don’t you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

78. “The Atonement of Jesus Christ is rightfully seen as the central fact, the crucial foundation, and the chief doctrine of the plan of salvation, which we are called to teach.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

79. “A noble deed is a step toward God.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

80. “Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the Church. Teach them that those blessings could come virtually no other way.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

81. “Satan is certainly not subtle in his teachings; why should we be? Whether we are instructing our children at home or standing before an audience in church, let us never make our faith difficult to detect.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

82. “True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ’s great atoning example for us, and it ought to be more evident in the kindness we show, the respect we give, and the selflessness and courtesy we employ in our personal relationships.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

83. “We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

84. “What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first face any tattered remnant of darkness that remains in our own souls.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

85. “I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

86. “Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

87. “Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

88. “Preparatory faith is formed by experiences in the past-by the known, which provides a basis for belief. But redemptive faith must often be exercised toward experiences in the future-the unknown, which provides an opportunity for the miraculous.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

89. “God loves us. He is good, He is our Father, and He expects us to pray, and to trust and be believing, and not give up, and not panic, and not retreat, when something doesn’t seem to be going just right.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

90. “God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future – to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

91. “In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

92. “Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don’t the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

93. “The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion primarily because it is the most extended and definitive witness we have of the Lord Jesus Christ – of our Alpha and Omega, the Key Stone, the Chief Cornerstone of the eternal gospel. Christ is our salvation, and the Book of Mormon declares that message unequivocally to the world. In its message of faith in Christ, hope in Christ, and charity in Christ, the Book of Mormon is God’s “new covenant” to his children – for the last time.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

94. “To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

95. “In His own ministry, Jesus did not come to improve God’s view of man nearly so much as He came to improve man’s view of God and to plead with them to love their Heavenly Father as He has always and will always love them.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

96. “In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the field of, say, literary fiction can be just plain old-fashioned destruction when transferred to families yearning for faith at home.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

97. “Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

98. “The Church is not a fast food outlet. We can’t always have it our way. Some day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ, and that salvation can only come His way.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

99. “Just because God is God, just because Christ is Christ, they cannot do other than care for us and bless us and help us if we will but come unto them, approaching their throne of grace in meekness and lowliness of heart. They can’t help but bless us. They have to. It is their nature.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

100. “Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland