Henry B. Eyring Quotes

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to match that amount of love He had for me, which is the reason why I decided to take a vow of celibacy.

Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of GOD were great, we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for God.

My service to humanity is my real opportunity to prove my genuine love for God and God alone.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

If you look from my point of view, that's what Christians strive for - love from God.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.

If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.

By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.