Sacred Service Quotes

The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.

The greatest blessings of mankind are the gifts of God … —the priesthood and the imperial authority. The priesthood ministers to things divine; the imperial authority is set over, and shows diligence in, things human …. Both adorn the life of man.

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

The Basiji must understand that he is a soldier of God for whom it is not so much the outcome of the conflict as the mere participation in it that provides fulfillment and gratification

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation.

I will be a priest forever.

Support your priests with your love and prayers, that they may always be shepherds after Christ’s heart

There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.

To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.

The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them.

There are others (I am speaking of my own order) who enter the priesthood and diaconate in order that they may visit women with greater freedom.

Our Heavenly Father does bless us when we show our love for Him in all things.

What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest times; yes, the twelve disciples bound to their Lord in love, to do his work forever, that was a church, a Christian family.

There is no greater blessing that you can have than to stand as a proxy in a great service to those who have gone beyond. And it will be your privilege and your opportunity and your responsibility to live worthy to go to the temple of the Lord and be baptized in behalf of someone else.

When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship

I have blessed hands. I got my hands blessed by the priest, and I am able to give out Holy Communion at Mass. It is lovely to be part of it.

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

The Lord needed the strength of the women of this Church as the seeds of the Restoration were planted and nourished.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.