Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace.

Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn't give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.

Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

God does not have problems. Only plans.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.

When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.

Everything that happens to a child of God, His father filtered and He intends to use it for the good and even when Satan and others mean it for bad because God is sovereignly in control.

God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.

Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .

God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.

In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of God, they're never separated. Where there is pain, there is healing. Where there is mourning, there is dancing. Where there is poverty, there is the kingdom.

God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.

Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor-

What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

No matter how small the gift, God gives the increase.

Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.