James E. Faust Quotes

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Christians need a time and place to sanctify themselves. It's important to take the time, and early in the morning is a wonderful time to do it.

we admonish that men keep Sunday's festival with all their might, and observe it from Saturday's noon to Monday's dawning; and no man be so bold that he either go to market or seek any court on that holy day

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.

Much prayer, but no piety.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

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.

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.

I pray as much as possible.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

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.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.