Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

A second chance doesn't mean anything if you haven't learned from your first mistake.

It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life!

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change.' Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

I'm not going to be the same as I was when I've made so many bad mistakes.

True atonement isn't the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.

I like second chances; I've had a few myself.

I am a firm believer that you can make a mistake but that shouldn't define you. Everybody deserves a second chance.

I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

We know we're coming full circle with God when we stand at a very similar crossroad where we made such a mess of life before, but this time we take a different road.

Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life