Jim DeMint Quotes

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.

I will go where the Lord and the leaders of His Church want me to go, I will do what they want me to do, I will teach what they want me to teach, and I will strive to become what I should and must become.

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

Oh, I don't think religion has failed. It's man who has failed. Christ hasn't failed. The Gospel hasn't failed. The teachings of God have not failed.

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.

We're all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

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

As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

God's desire is that we excel.

One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.