James E. Faust Quotes

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.

I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.

My mother loved the Bible.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.

Being from a family in church and being a Christian myself, I pray daily.

Our family was just really passionate about Jesus.

I'm trying to make sure that for myself and for my family, I'm staying as close to the heart of God that I possibly can.

There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.

There is a difference in just attending the temple and having a rich spiritual experience. The real blessings of the temple come as we enhance our temple experience. To do so, we must feel a spirit of reverence for the temple and a spirit of worship.

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

As we attend the temple, there can come to us a dimension of spirituality and a feeling of peace which will transcend any other feeling which could come into the human heart. We will grasp the true meaning of the words of the Savior when He said: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. … Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”