Top 120 Jeffrey R. Holland Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

102. “Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

103. “We don’t want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

104. “You and I won’t ever find ourselves on that cross, but we repeatedly find ourselves at the foot of it. And how we act there will speak volumes about what we think of Christ’s character and His call for us to be His disciples.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

105. “My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, “No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

106. “We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

107. “There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

108. “Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

109. “Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is so appropriate.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

110. “How grateful I was that, in addition to being just, God is able to be merciful also.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

111. “Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet in part because righteousness was always supposed to accompany it. Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

112. “I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend. The times call for great things, but great things in the noblest and most redemptive sense are predicted upon tolerance, love, respect, understanding, dignity, prayer, God.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

113. “I may not be my brothers keeper, but I am my brother’s brother.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

114. “One of the early pieces of advice I had as a General Authority was that “we ought to have great music in the Church and more of it, coupled with great speaking in the Church and less of it.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

115. “Repentance is not a foreboding word. It is, after faith, the most encouraging word in the Christian vocabulary. Repentance is simply the scriptural invitation for growth and improvement and progress and renewal. You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

116. “Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight and know all the evils that can deflect its course after is has left our hand, nevertheless we take courage in remembering that the most important factor in determining that arrow’s destination will be the stability, strength, and unwavering certainty of the holder of the bow.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

117. “Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior’s atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

118. “Love, like individuals, is tested by the flame of adversity. If we are faithful and determined, it will temper and refine us, but it will not consume us. Enjoy what you now have. Be a disciple of Christ. Live worthily of marriage even if it doesn’t come soon. And cherish it with all your heart when it does.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

119. “The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

120. “No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

121. “Just believing, just having a molecule of faith – that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be not only the first principle of His Eternal Gospel but also the first step out of despair.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

122. “The moment you have a self there is the temptation to put it forward, to put it first and at the center of things. And the more we are – socially or intellectually or politically or economically – the greater the risk of increasing self-worship.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

123. “I believe that in our own individual ways, God takes us to the grove or the mountain or the temple and there shows us the wonder of what His plan is for us. We may not see it as fully as Moses or Nephi or the brother of Jared did, but we see as much as need to see in order to know the Lord’s will for us and to know that He loves us beyond mortal comprehension.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

124. “In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

125. “To those who are trying hard and living right and things still seem burdensome and difficult, I say, take heart. Others have walked that way before you.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

126. “Be a true friend to those who need your strength and integrity.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

127. “Sadly enough... it is a characteristic of our age, that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much: comfortable, smooth gods.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

128. “Heaven, or the kingdom of God, is easy if e work at it hard, but hard if we work at it easy.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

129. “I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our fast and free-will offerings, according to our circumstances. And we can watch for other ways to help.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

130. “In a world of tribulation – and there will always be plenty of it – let’s remember our faith. Let’s recall the other promises and prophecies that have been given, all the reassuring ones, and let’s live life more fully, with more boldness and courage than at any other time in our history.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

131. “Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony! Don’t just assume your children on their own will somehow get the drift of your beliefs.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

132. “We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland