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Top 25 Terryl L. Givens Quotes (2025 Update)

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance.”

1. “What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “We humans have a lamentable tendency to spend more time theorizing the reasons behind human suffering, than working to alleviate human suffering.”

2. “We humans have a lamentable tendency to spend more time theorizing the reasons behind human suffering, than working to alleviate human suffering.”

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Terryl L. Givens Quote: “God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.”

3. “God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “The Atonement is not a backup plan in case we happen to fall short in the process; it is the ordained means whereby we gradually become complete and whole, in a sin-strewn process of sanctification through which our Father patiently guides us.”

4. “The Atonement is not a backup plan in case we happen to fall short in the process; it is the ordained means whereby we gradually become complete and whole, in a sin-strewn process of sanctification through which our Father patiently guides us.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us eyes to see and bid us shut them to the stars.”

5. “A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us eyes to see and bid us shut them to the stars.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “Life’s most wrenching choices are not between right and wrong but between competing demands on our time, our resources, our love and loyalty.”

6. “Life’s most wrenching choices are not between right and wrong but between competing demands on our time, our resources, our love and loyalty.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “There are many kinds of silences and not all signify absence or vacancy... Those moments are but temporary ebbs before the flow of meaning rushes in to fill the space... God may be speaking ’in ways we have yet to recognize as speech.”

7. “There are many kinds of silences and not all signify absence or vacancy... Those moments are but temporary ebbs before the flow of meaning rushes in to fill the space... God may be speaking ’in ways we have yet to recognize as speech.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into. We may suffer the unfortunate consequences of other peoples’ choices. People may honor or abuse us, harm or nourish us. But for the most part, it is our own choices that shape our identity.”

8. “What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into. We may suffer the unfortunate consequences of other peoples’ choices. People may honor or abuse us, harm or nourish us. But for the most part, it is our own choices that shape our identity.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is, and knowing that a thing is not.”

9. “The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is, and knowing that a thing is not.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “Relationships are the core of our existence because they are the core of God’s and we are in His image.”

10. “Relationships are the core of our existence because they are the core of God’s and we are in His image.”

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Terryl L. Givens Quote: “Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed and sanctified nature.”

11. “Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed and sanctified nature.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “Voltaire, “To believe in God is impossible; but not to believe is absurd.”

12. “Voltaire, “To believe in God is impossible; but not to believe is absurd.”

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Terryl L. Givens Quote: “Catholics espouse papal infallibility, but no Catholic believes in it. Joseph Smith espoused prophetic fallibility, but no Mormon believes in it.”

13. “Catholics espouse papal infallibility, but no Catholic believes in it. Joseph Smith espoused prophetic fallibility, but no Mormon believes in it.”

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Terryl L. Givens Quote: “If God can transform cosmic entropy and malice alike into fire that purifies rather than destroys, how much more can He do this with the actions of well-intentioned but less-than-perfect leaders. In other words, it is reasonable to believe that in His infinite wisdom, God anticipates not only the devices and strategies of the wicked but also the foreseeable range of His leaders’ errors – and appoints them with those limitations already considered.”

14. “If God can transform cosmic entropy and malice alike into fire that purifies rather than destroys, how much more can He do this with the actions of well-intentioned but less-than-perfect leaders. In other words, it is reasonable to believe that in His infinite wisdom, God anticipates not only the devices and strategies of the wicked but also the foreseeable range of His leaders’ errors – and appoints them with those limitations already considered.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.”

15. “What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.”

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Terryl L. Givens Quote: “As Flannery O’Connor wrote, “Religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it’s a cross.”13.”

16. “As Flannery O’Connor wrote, “Religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it’s a cross.”13.”

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Terryl L. Givens Quote: “Faith is lived, not thought.”

17. “Faith is lived, not thought.”

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Terryl L. Givens Quote: “In God’s garden, we will continue to blossom differently. And in that difference, we find a chemistry and a harmony, a spark across the gap, that consumes us all.”

18. “In God’s garden, we will continue to blossom differently. And in that difference, we find a chemistry and a harmony, a spark across the gap, that consumes us all.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “The English historian Thomas Carlyle defined a person’s religion as the set of values evident in his or her actions, regardless of what the individual would claim to believe when asked.”

19. “The English historian Thomas Carlyle defined a person’s religion as the set of values evident in his or her actions, regardless of what the individual would claim to believe when asked.”

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Terryl L. Givens Quote: “The gospel Christ taught was spectacularly designed to unsettle and disturb, not lull into pleasant serenity.”

20. “The gospel Christ taught was spectacularly designed to unsettle and disturb, not lull into pleasant serenity.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “Holiness is found in how we treat others, not in how we contemplate the cosmos.”

21. “Holiness is found in how we treat others, not in how we contemplate the cosmos.”

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Terryl L. Givens Quote: “Whatever sense we make of this world, whatever value we place upon our lives and relationships, whatever meaning we ultimately give to our joys and agonies, must necessarily be a gesture of faith. Whether we consider the whole a product of impersonal cosmic forces, a malevolent deity, or a benevolent god, depends not on the evidence, but on what we choose, deliberately and consciously, to conclude from that evidence.”

22. “Whatever sense we make of this world, whatever value we place upon our lives and relationships, whatever meaning we ultimately give to our joys and agonies, must necessarily be a gesture of faith. Whether we consider the whole a product of impersonal cosmic forces, a malevolent deity, or a benevolent god, depends not on the evidence, but on what we choose, deliberately and consciously, to conclude from that evidence.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “We all exhibit our faith commitments by the way we live, and those commitments are oriented around a value or set of values, a belief or set of beliefs, by which we guide our lives. We may posit reason as the highest good. Or pleasure. Or love and kindness. But no foundation is without an act of faith to sustain it.”

23. “We all exhibit our faith commitments by the way we live, and those commitments are oriented around a value or set of values, a belief or set of beliefs, by which we guide our lives. We may posit reason as the highest good. Or pleasure. Or love and kindness. But no foundation is without an act of faith to sustain it.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “Wherefore I dare not, I, put forth my hand To hold the Ark, although it seem to shake Through th’ old sinnes and new doctrines of our land. Onely, since God doth often vessels make Of lowly matter for high uses meet, I throw me at his feet. – George Herbert1.”

24. “Wherefore I dare not, I, put forth my hand To hold the Ark, although it seem to shake Through th’ old sinnes and new doctrines of our land. Onely, since God doth often vessels make Of lowly matter for high uses meet, I throw me at his feet. – George Herbert1.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “In most of life’s greatest transactions, where the stakes are the highest, it is to the heart that we rightly turn, although not in utter isolation from the rational and reasonable. p16.”

25. “In most of life’s greatest transactions, where the stakes are the highest, it is to the heart that we rightly turn, although not in utter isolation from the rational and reasonable. p16.”

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Terryl L. Givens Quote: “Heaven is a condition and a sanctified nature toward which all godly striving tends; it is not a place to be found by walking through the right door with a heavenly hall pass.”

26. “Heaven is a condition and a sanctified nature toward which all godly striving tends; it is not a place to be found by walking through the right door with a heavenly hall pass.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Terryl L. Givens Quote: “It is only with hindsight that we can see the paradigms of the past for the intellectual straitjackets they were.”

27. “It is only with hindsight that we can see the paradigms of the past for the intellectual straitjackets they were.”

— Terryl L. Givens

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