Henry B. Eyring Quotes

A Mormon knows that the promises of God are true, and He said that all will be tried; realizing these things the Latter-day Saints will acknowledge their Maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

God puts you through things - steps in life - and you get over them.

The instructor is always silent when the test is given... ...When God is silent in your life... You are being tested.

Testimony is the beginning of and a prerequisite to continuing conversion. Testimony is a point of departure; it is not an ultimate destination. Strong testimony is the foundation upon which conversion is established. Testimony alone is not and will not be enough to protect us in the latter-day storm of darkness and evil in which we are living.

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

In order to have a testimony, you have to have a test.

Whenever I go through any sort of bad patch, I remind myself that part of the game of cricket is God testing you.

God does things and put certain things in front of you to see how strong you are.

Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being “willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father.” Ultimately, patience means being “firm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lord” every hour of every day, even when it is hard to do so. In the words of John the Revelator, “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and … faith [in] Jesus.”

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.

God uses no one until He first puts them through the storm. The greater your mission, the greater your storm.

Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed... Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.

The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the obstacles we face. He has shown the way to gain strength during our struggles. With His assistance, we have the ability to succeed. Listen to His words of counsel and comfort: 'Fear not, little children, for you are mine, and I have overcome the world and none of them that my Father hath given me shall be lost.

If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?