James E. Faust Quotes

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine.

Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection. Without agency, none of us could grow and develop by learning from our mistakes and errors and those of others.... I do not really think the devil can make us do anything. Certainly he can tempt and he can deceive, but he has no authority over us that we do not give him.

All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

I considered myself liberated long before it became the fashion. First I liberated myself from debilitating habits, and went on to free myself of combative, aggressive thoughts. I have also cast aside any unnecessary possessions. This, I feel, is true liberation.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.

We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for any man, by merely willing it, to add wings to his soul. This perennial miracle of the moral nature is capable of happening at any time.

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have destroyed much that society has implanted within you. You will have become freer from the society and its conditioning.

You can change. You can 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.'

Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.