Thomas Guthrie Quotes

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

Let's come together as the body of Christ and reach out and be the true hands and feet of Christ.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can.

I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

I have considered the subject of missions nearly a year and have found my mind gradually tending to a deep conviction that it is my duty personally to engage in this service.

I see everything I do as an extension of the ministry. It's all about service.

Relief Society can help us turn away from the world, for its express purpose is to help sisters and their families come unto Christ.

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.

Christian life means sacrifice.

Saints are ordinary people who love Jesus, try to be like him, are faithful to the duties of their state in life, sacrifice themselves for their neighbor, and keep their hearts and minds free of this world.

I have my work and my Jesus!

The most important thing is that we're impacting people for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ... that's why we're here.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

When I think of the Savior, I often picture Him with hands outstretched, reaching out to comfort, heal, bless, and love. And He always talked with, never down to, people. He loved the humble and the meek and walked among them, ministering to them and offering hope and salvation. That is what He did during His mortal life; it is what He would be doing if He were living among us today; and it is what we should be doing as His disciples and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

It's true the Holy Spirit alone can reproduce the character of our Lord Jesus, and we must always abide in Christ. But the Bible also makes us active partners in the process, and we must be diligent to do our part. "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed".

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.