David A. Bednar Quotes

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Nobody brainwashed me with God in my head or anything. I just saw this new reality, and I felt like I've been blinded, and I finally took the blindfolds off.

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Don't go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don't shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

God is shaking me.

The Creator of the seas, sands, and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life!

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah.

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.