David B. Haight famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.
-- David B. Haight

#Motivational #Love Is #Thinking
A temple is a place in which those whom He has chosen are endowed with power from on highâ€”a power which enables us to use our gifts and capabilitiesâ€”to bring to pass our Heavenly Father's purposes in our own lives and the lives of those we love.
-- David B. Haight

#Father #Purpose #Use
There come to one's soul heavenly thoughts as he joins in heavenly expressions coupled with heavenly melody.
-- David B. Haight

#Music #Expression #Soul
Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world....
-- David B. Haight

#Love You #Love Life #Mean
Regular temple attendance is one of the simplest ways you can bless those who are waiting in the spirit world. If you live near a temple, partake of the opportunity to go often and regularly.
-- David B. Haight

#Opportunity #Waiting #Way
Donâ€™t be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live Godâ€™s commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.
-- David B. Haight

#Fighting #Helping Others #Winning
If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.
-- David B. Haight

#Life #Fall #Kingdoms
We've had a wonderful, wonderful life together. We've been in many places, we've had the experiences, and now we have the memories. But most of all we have developed the solid knowledge and understanding and background regarding the foundation stones of life, so that we know for a surety that what we are doing [in helping to build the Kingdom of God] is true. Those foundation stones are granite stones; not soft, not limestones. They are granite.
-- David B. Haight

#Life #Memories #Understanding
It is the love that we give and the service we render that really is the great payoff.
-- David B. Haight

#Love #Giving #Payoff
Knowing that we should love is not enough. But when knowledge is applied through service, love can secure for us the blessings of heaven.
-- David B. Haight

#Love #Blessing #Knowing
The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, "There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'"
-- David B. Haight

#Courage #Dust #Leader
Those who labor unselfishly in behalf of others, with no thought of remuneration, will be physically and spiritually refreshed and renewed.
-- David B. Haight

#Remuneration #Behalf #Labor
Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge through uplifting literature; wholesome books; selective movies; classical and exemplary popular music; entertainment that uplifts and edifies the spirit and mind.
-- David B. Haight

#Uplifting #Book #Home
How did they manage to raise their children in righteousness? The principles become part of their lives, and when it becomes part of their life, it isn't difficult to do.
-- David B. Haight

#Life #Children #Principles
Though the world is becoming more wicked, the youth of Christ's Church can become more righteous if they understand who they are, understand the blessings available, and understand the promises God has made to those who are righteous, who believe, who endure.
-- David B. Haight

#Believe #Blessing #Promise
As we see this work move forward and move on, I would only declare to you as I stand before you today that in those 90 and more years that I've had, as I've witnessed and felt and seen and been part of the spiritual experiences that have been mine, that this is the work of the Lord. It's just as has been revealed. I've sensed it and I feel it, and I so declare to you.
-- David B. Haight

#Spiritual #Moving #Years
It's so easy in life for us to receive blessings, many of them almost uncounted, and have things happen in our lives that can help change our lives, improve our lives, and bring the Spirit into our lives. But we sometimes take them for granted. How grateful we should be for the blessings that the gospel of Jesus Christ brings into our hearts and souls. I would remind all of you that if we're ever going to show gratitude properly to our Heavenly Father, we should do it with all of our heart, might, mind, and strength-because it was He who gave us life and breath
-- David B. Haight

#Gratitude #Jesus #Father
You young men of the priesthood, resolve to live the way you should. Don't be caught up in some of the silly things that are going on in the world, but bear in mind what has been given to you.
-- David B. Haight

#Silly #Men #Mind
Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned into the image of all we have seen and heard, known and meditated; and if we learn to live with all that is fairest and purest and best , the love of it all will in the end become our life.
-- David B. Haight

#Soul #Littles #Ends
The Lord never asks the impossible. Often the difficult, but never the impossible.
-- David B. Haight

#Impossible #Lord #Difficult
Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves.
-- David B. Haight

#Mistake #Yesterday #Competition
God accomplishes His purposes heart to heart.
-- David B. Haight

#Heart #Purpose #Heart To Heart
To develop good thoughts and acts, we must live and associate with good people.
-- David B. Haight

#People #Good People #Good Thoughts

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