Pietro Metastasio Quotes

With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and offerings. I plead with youth to establish this habit while you are still young and to resolve to continue with it all the days of your lives.

Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.

Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

I trained them for this very hour; they will fight, and, if need be, die, too, under the shadow of the house of God.

If God can't get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won't get to anything else you got.

Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.

Each January, I put God first and honor him with the first of our substance by sowing a first fruits offering of one month's pay. That is a big sacrifice, but it is a seed for the harvest I am believing for in the coming year. And God always provides!

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

January is the beginning of a new year for us in the Western world. Let us give to God what belongs to him: the first hours of our day, the first month of the year, the first of our increase, the first in every area of our life. It's devoted... The principle of first fruits is that when you give God the first, he governs the rest and redeems in.

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.

When God commands, do it!

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.

The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.

I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.

God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.

Such a Saint, such an offering.

I would that ye should come unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption. Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him, and continue in fasting and praying, and endure to the end; and as the Lord liveth ye will be saved.