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FAITH
Talks, quotes, and scriptures on FAITH from LDS Church leaders
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I have placed links to all of these divinely -inspired talks, and have quoted very small parts from each talk, that I hope will help you and I develop more faith, but please click on the titles to take you to the actual talks so you can read all that was said  


God Grants us Faith - by President Gordon B. Hinckley, October 1983
"Wrote Paul to the Hebrews, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Heb. 11:1.) All of the great accomplishments of which I have spoken were once only “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” But with vision, with labor, and with confidence in the power of God working through them, they brought their faith to reality."


Shall He Find Faith on the Earth - by Elder Joseph B. Worthlin - October 2002 

"Too often today, we do not rely on faith so much as on our own ability to reason and solve problems. If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles. We can travel great distances in a short time. We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince."
 “The just shall live by faith,”we are told in holy writ. I ask again, What is faith? Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will of our Heavenly Father. Without all three—first, absolute confidence; second, action; and third, absolute conformity—without these three all we have is a counterfeit, a weak and watered-down faith. "


Building Bridges to Faith - :Loren C. Dunn - April 1983
There are many steps a person can take to develop the gift and power of faith. In the next few minutes I would like to suggest six of these steps.
Number one: Faith is the ability to recognize the Lord as all-powerful and the giver of all blessings.
Number two: Faith is the ability to do what we are prompted to do, and when we are prompted to do it. (Faith, then, is the realization that the Lord can help us with all things.)
Number three: Faith is the ability to live the laws of God that control the blessings we are in need of. While we should not keep the commandments just to receive blessings, nevertheless, the blessings are there.
Number four: Faith is the ability to act “as if.”
Number five: Faith is the ability to be charitable and to believe in people.
Number six: Faith is the ability to allow ourselves to be guided by the priesthood.


Lest Ye Be Wearied and Faint in Your Minds - Elder Neil A. Maxwell, April 1991
" One’s life, therefore, cannot be both faith-filled and stress-free. President Wilford Woodruff counseled us all about the mercy that is inherent in some adversity: “The chastisements we have had from time to time have been for our good, and are essential to learn wisdom, and carry us through a school of experience we never could have passed through without.” (In Journal of Discourses, 2:198.)

Therefore, how can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, “Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!”

Serving, studying, praying, and worshiping are four fundamentals in perfecting “that which is lacking in [our] faith.” (1 Thes. 3:10.) If we cease nurturing our faith in any of these four specific ways, we are vulnerable.

"While faith is not a perfect knowledge, it brings a deep trust in God, whose knowledge is perfect! Otherwise, one’s small data base of personal experience permits so few useful generalizations! But by searching the holy scriptures, we access a vast, divine data bank, a reservoir of remembrance. In this way, the scriptures can, as the Book of Mormon says, enlarge the memory. (See Alma 37:8.)"

Finding Faith in Jesus Christ - by Elder Robert D. Hales, October 2004
" The first step to finding faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is to let His word—spoken by the mouth of His servants, the prophets—touch your heart. But it is not enough merely to let those words wash over you, as if they alone could transform you. We must do our part.

Or as the Savior Himself said, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” In other words, hearing requires an active effort. “Faith without works is dead.”  It means taking seriously what is taught, considering it carefully, studying it out in our minds. As the prophet Enos learned, it means letting others’ testimonies of the gospel “[sink] deep into [our] heart[s].”

Seeing the Promises Afar Off - Sister Anne C Pringree, Second Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, Oct 2003
"Faith, the spiritual ability to be persuaded of promises that are seen “afar off” … , is a sure measure of those who truly believe."
" Many hours later, after all the interviews were completed, as my husband and I drove back along that sandy jungle trail, we were stunned when we saw these two sisters still walking. We realized they had trekked from their village—a distance of 18 miles round trip—just to obtain a temple recommend they knew they would never have the privilege of using.

These Nigerian Saints believed the counsel of President Howard W. Hunter: “It would please the Lord for every adult member to be worthy of—and to carry—a current temple recommend, even if proximity to a temple does not allow immediate or frequent use of it.”  In her hand, carefully wrapped in a clean handkerchief, each sister carried her precious temple recommend. I carry their examples of faith carefully wrapped in my heart."

Help Thou My Unbelief - Elder L. Whitney Clayton of the Quorum of the Seventy, Oct 2001
"We promote the process of strengthening our faith when we do what is right—increased faith always follows."
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the first principle of the gospel and is more than mere belief. Faith is a “hope for things which are not seen, which are true.”  Faith always moves its possessor to … physical and mental action.” “To have faith in Jesus Christ means to have such trust in him that we obey whatever he commands. There is no faith where there is no obedience.”

Faith comes from hearing the word of God and is a spiritual gift. Faith increases when we not only hear, but act on the word of God as well, in obedience to the truths we have been taught.

Developing faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is a step-by-step, line-upon-line, and precept-upon-precept process. We promote the process of strengthening our faith when we do what is right—increased faith always follows as a consequence. If we exercise our faith daily with prayer, study, and obedience, the Savior helps our unbelief, and our faith becomes a shield to “quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”  Alma taught that we may “withstand every temptation of the devil, with [our] faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.”  However, we can neither ignore nor reject the essential ingredients of faith and then expect to reap a rich harvest.


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