Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.
It should be recognized that this Church is not a social club. This is the kingdom of God on the earth. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Its purpose is to bring salvation and exaltation to both the living and the dead.
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
The great thing is to become Saints.
Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.
It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. "
When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
This promise from the Lord to His Saints does not imply that we will be exempt from sufferings or trials but that we will be sustained through them and that we will know that it is the Lord who has sustained us.
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
The dangers that exist are real, but only illustrate the fact that men and women need Christ. The suffering and dying of missionaries advance the Kingdom as nothing else could and the blood of the saints has ever been the seed and fuel of gospel advance.
The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
There are no super saints, only those that don't quit.
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.