Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.

Train our children to love God.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. There is no surprise in that, since the Lord proclaimed those as the first and great commandments.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

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

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

Let your minds be filled with the goal of being like the Lord, and you will crowd out depressing thoughts as you anxiously seek to know Him and do His will.

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

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.

It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those who give up things for Lent and then act like it's such a struggle to perform what they said they wanted to do for Him.

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.