Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

Wisdom and good works have been brought in perfect succession from age to age by the messengers of God. They come on one age through the prophet called Buddha in the region of India, in another through Zoroaster in the land of Persia, and in yet another through Jesus in the land of the West.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

Joseph Smith visited me a great deal after his death, and taught me many important principles. . . . Among other things, he told me to get the Spirit of God; that all of us needed it. . . . He said, "I want you to teach the people to get the Spirit of God. You cannot build up the Kingdom of God without that." . . . But how is it with the Holy Ghost? The Holy Ghost does not leave me if I do my duty. It does not leave any man who does his duty.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.

None within the sound of my voice should be in any doubt concerning what is moral and what is not, nor should any be in doubt about what is expected of us ... We have been and continue to be taught God's laws. Despite what you may see or hear elsewhere, these laws are unchanging.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

Choosing to do what the Lord has defined as right will, in the long run, always lead to the best outcomes.

The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.

I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

It is absolutely necessary, both for our advancement and the salvation of others, to follow always and in all things the beautiful light of faith

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.

The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.

So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.