George Matthew Adams Quotes

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.

The Christmas spirit - love - changes hearts and lives.

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

There's a lot of movies that aren't all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn't the focus, but have that spirit of Christmas in them. I love that sequence in 'Auntie Mame,' where she's in the department store, sewing at Macy's, and she doesn't know how to do anything but fill out a form as 'cash on delivery!'

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.

I never sacrificed myself. I did what I did out of love.

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind.

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind. "Christmas means 'compassion and love' and, most of all 'forgiveness' How poor indeed would be our lives without the influence of His teachings and His matchless example. "He whose birth we commemorate this season is more than the symbol of a holiday. He is the Son of God, the Redeemer of mankind, the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

When we keep the spirit of Christmas, we keep the spirit of Christ, for the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit.

That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.

Love is the greatest medicine. I ask to be healing medicine for others. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and to love others as they wish to be loved. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and open to my being loved as I wish to be loved.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

Giving is better than receiving, 'cause that's the ability you give somebody to get stronger than they would be, than they could be, than they should be, before you loved them. When you give somebody the ability to feel your love and your healing, you're a doctor in the spirit, bringin' medicine from God to your heart and on to them.

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more…to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

A loving heart is an inventive one.

In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.