Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church.
God's will can become your internal reference point from this day forward; it is your choice.
The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.
When God's leading and directing, you don't have to kick the doors open.
Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.
I've been known to preach.
The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.
God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.
And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
Jesus did not live in reaction to the devil. He lived in response to the Father.
We often leave the most precious personal direction of the Spirit unheard because we do not record and respond to the first promptings that come to us when the Lord chooses to direct us.
We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
I was so engrossed in my sport, I wasn't thinking about the future from God's standpoint. I was thinking about just my sporting future.
When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.
My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.
None of the Christian religions do [interest me]. They're all outer-directed.
We have a place where we can take people when they come to us with questions so we're not just speaking out of our own opinion. We're really speaking to them out of an authoritative place, not because of what we discovered, but because of what God says.
You have to call on the Lord to find out where he wants you, what he wants from you.
For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.
