Saint Augustine Quotes

Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Learning by faith and from experience are two of the central features of the Father's plan of happiness. The Savior preserved moral agency through the Atonement and made it possible for us to act and to learn by faith.

According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.

But I'm going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing.

The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.

Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

The man or woman who lives worthily now is in a state of salvation.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.

All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.

Do not put off any longer confessing all your sins, for death will soon come. Give and it will be given you; forgive and you will be forgiven. . . Blessed are they who die repentant, for they shall go to the Kingdom of Heaven!

The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.

Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.

No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves

Don’t concentrate on what you don’t have or have lost. The Lord promised the obedient to share all that He possesses with them. You may temporarily lack here, but in the next life, if you prove yourself worthy by living valiantly, a fulness will be your blessing.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

May you also remember this Thanksgiving not only the obvious gifts that God has given you, but His spiritual blessings, as well. The greatest gift of all is Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers us in Him.