Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Faith accepts no commands. It accepts only what comes to it by way of reasoned conviction.

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

I think often that God is guiding me.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.