Harold B. Lee Quotes

Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,' an' He always did.

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have us to do about those things that are concerning to us.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

You can't tell me no, because you can't tell Jesus no. It doesn't work.

You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.

God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will.

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.

All you have to do is trust your Heavenly Father. Trust Him enough to follow His plan.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.

Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn’t give you what you asked for?

When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.

A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

While we do not place our faith directly in angels, we should place it in the God who rules the angels; then we can have peace.

Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him-without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one's agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, "I will do as you direct," is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

We forget, we have a short memory and we're human. This morning my Scripture was Isaiah 26:3, which said, Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee for he trusteth in Thee.

Sometimes God allows us to explore the 'whys' of His instructions. Other times He wants us to obey 'because He said so.' Has God asked you to obey in a specific matter that still awaits your obedient response?