M. Russell Ballard Quotes

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.

The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament.

As any Christian would understand, I feel church is sacred. For me, it is the place I worship, where I learn about God and feel closest to Him each week.

May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

We must learn to share the gospel in ways that show it is both GOOD and NEWS. The gospel is about what God has done for us and what we can become in Christ

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.

Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

I am serving the Lord and helping women save babies.

Everyone thinks they know Jesus because they've got a personal relationship with him.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

I love Jesus.

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.