Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Any time I found a new piece of knowledge or wisdom, I would thank Allah for it. Then Allah would bless me with more of it.

God is the Source of real love, joy, peace, wisdom and everything else we all need to be the people He has created us to be.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

We should always be learning. However, we must be careful not to set aside our faith in the process, because faith actually enhances our ability to learn.

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people who shared the experience of learning.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.