Russell M. Nelson Quotes

In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.

God tells me that I need to provide for my family, discipline and teach my children, and love my wife as Christ loves the church. If I don't do that, I'm being unfaithful and sinful.

The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether those within the covenanted community itself or those between the covenanted community and the outside world.

We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God's law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.

It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

Wherever you go, God be with you.

I ask every man and woman occupying a place of responsibility whose duty it is to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to live it and keep the commandments of God, so that their example will teach it.

Marriage can be tough. It really is. But God is calling you to do everything you can. It's just not you and your spouse. There's a third person in your marriage. And God would like to bless and protect that marriage, and give you many fruitful days ahead.

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.

The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

A nation that honors God will always be honored by God. I've seen nations that have dishonored God: God has been taken out of schools, the government, the military; and when you take Him out of a nation, how can you expect God to protect this nation?

I feel that God has given me a very special opportunity that I should not let go to waste. I use the gift he has given me.

God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them.

We desire to repose at the feet of your Holiness the assurance of our filial loyalty of our devotion to your August Person, as well as our firm resolve to be guided in all our work by the teaching of Christ, and to be guided in all our work by the teaching of Christ, and to strive for the attainment of a social order in Ireland based on Christian principles.