Patricia Briggs Quotes

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

Common sense is no match for the voice of God.

God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

For you to have any relationship with God, it must be through His Word by His Spirit.

Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.

Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—

Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.

I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would immediately facilitate mastering the ability to be guided by the Holy Spirit. Nor do I believe that the Lord will ever allow someone to conceive a pattern that would invariably and immediately open the channels of spiritual communication. We grow when we labor to recognize the guidance of the Holy Ghost as we struggle to communicate our needs to our Father in Heaven in moments of dire need or overflowing gratitude.

Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms. She also taught me to kneel and pray to Usen for strength, health, wisdom, and protection. We never prayed against any person, but if we had aught against any individual we ourselves took vengeance. We were taught that Usen does not care for the petty quarrels of men.

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.

The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." "Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances, the regular and appropriate prayer (the Lord's Prayer) is said first, as the foundation of further desires.

Only if God tells me to come back. No other way.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

The thing that all of us should strive for is to so live, keeping the commandments of the Lord, that He can answer our prayers. If we will live worthy, then the Lord will guide us - by a personal appearance, or by His actual voice, or by His voice coming into our mind, or by impressions upon our heart and our soul. And oh, how grateful we ought to be if the Lord sends us a dream in which is revealed to us the beauties of the eternity or a warning and direction for our special comfort. Yes, if we so live, the Lord will guide us for our salvation and for our benefit.

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

We need not just one flash of light and comfort, but we need the continuing blessing of communication with God.

The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.