Top 50 Russell M. Nelson Quotes

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity‘s faith later.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

All leaders in the Lord‘s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‘What sign do I want to give to God?’ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

Each faithful young woman in the Church proclaims that individual worth is one of her most cherished values.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Missionaries serve to make life better for God’s children.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

We need more missionaries – more worthy missionaries.

Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

We are eternal beings – spirit children of heavenly parents.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

We are all pleased when our names are pronounced and spelled correctly.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Service of any type requires preparation.