Russell M. Nelson Quotes

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Russell M. Nelson

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : September 9, 1924

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

Russell M. Nelson

As a medical doctor and cardiac surgeon, I had the responsibility of performing open-heart surgery on President Spencer W. Kimball in 1972, when he was Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Russell M. Nelson

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.

Russell M. Nelson

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

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Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

Russell M. Nelson

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

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

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

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All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

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Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

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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.

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Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

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

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When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

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

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If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God's law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.

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Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

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We are eternal beings - spirit children of heavenly parents.

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

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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.

Russell M. Nelson