God uses people. God uses people to perform His work. He does not send angels. Angels weep over it, but God does not use angels to accomplish His purposes. He uses burdened broken-hearted weeping men and women.
When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.
Since the Lord will not force you to learn, you must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you.
We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.
When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.
I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.
Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves
God doesn't want to change the world without you.
The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen.
Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
While we wait for God to work for us, God is waiting to work through us.
Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.
Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.
God is using people to accomplish His work, of saving souls, but we have to remember that it is not us doing the work. It's God using our vessel.
To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity.
For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge.
God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, - which correspond to the physical element in us, - do not exhaust His agency. There is a boundless residue of disengaged energy beyond.
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
I did nothing. The Word did it all.
