Louis Farrakhan Quotes

The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

God-willing and prayerfully, we are always growing and changing and developing personally and professionally.

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

It's because I work in ethics, and, more specifically, applied ethics, that I think it's important that if you have things to say that you think are right and you think could make the world a better place, it's important that many people read about them.

Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change themselves

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind of person that I want to become.

Religion has given me a new drive in life. Life feels a lot easier than it ever did before.

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,--if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,--and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.

This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.

The only way to change the world is to change the main character of our story - the one we believe that we are. If we change the main character, if we respect ourselves, then just like magic, all the secondary characters will change. We can only give what we have, and if we don't respect ourselves, how can we respect others?

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.