David A. Bednar Quotes

If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

I have visited Ajmer Sharif Dargah a couple of times before, and each time, it fills my heart with so much love and gratitude.

Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Any work of love brings a person face to face with God.

I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca.

In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

Love is a sacred silence.

Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.

Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God

The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me.

..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.