Russell M. Nelson Quotes

A nation that turns it back on Christ and God's words of truth will inevitably regret it.

We cannot be unclean and expect the help of the Almighty.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

I'm no saint.

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Flesh will not stand in front of God, so all the decisions you make from your flesh will be paid for with your soul. Your flesh rejects the truth because it desires to do what it wants to do.

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.

You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

How little people know who think holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible.