Russell M. Nelson Quotes

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

I believe that God wants us to show respect.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

we admonish that men keep Sunday's festival with all their might, and observe it from Saturday's noon to Monday's dawning; and no man be so bold that he either go to market or seek any court on that holy day

I always put God first.

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

There's a difference between being excited about a trend and being excited about what God is already excited about.

Anyone that's ever listened to my message knows very well, that I believe in very solid biblical beliefs.

During Shabbat, I am completely cut off, there is no one to talk to, and I do not compromise about it.

Let your minds be filled with the goal of being like the Lord, and you will crowd out depressing thoughts as you anxiously seek to know Him and do His will.

One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.