M. Russell Ballard Quotes

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

I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.

Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

Lord, bless our week. Help us to take all the necessary risks to become the person we always wanted to be.

It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription!

Help me, Jesus. I know what I am.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.

If your soul needs healing, the prescription you need is not Chuck Norris' tears, it's Jesus' blood.

Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you want to improve a person, help him embrace a higher working goal-a standard, an ideal-and he will do his own 'making over' far more effectively than you can do it for him.

I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.

I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

the heart of religion is not altered states but altered traits of character. For me, then, the test of a substance's religious worth or validity is not what kind of far-out experience it can produce, but is the life improved by its use? That's the test. Now, on that score, if you remove the "religious cocoon," the experiences don't seem to have much in the way of discernible, traceable effects.

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.

I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.