Harold B. Lee Quotes

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

For the majority of mankind, religion is a habit, or, more precisely, tradition is their religion. Though it seems strange, I think that the first step to moral perfection is your liberation from the religion in which you were raised. Not a single person has come to perfection except by following this way.

Work is spiritual. It is a place where we have the opportunity for spiritual growth. Often, these opportunities come from the 'how' of the ways we do our work rather than the 'what' of the work itself.

I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind of person that I want to become.

Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.

Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself - it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.

Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.