However Long & Hard the Road Quotes

“Repentance is not a foreboding word. It is, after faith, the most encouraging word in the Christian vocabulary. Repentance is simply the scriptural invitation for growth and improvement and progress and renewal. You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, However Long & Hard the Road

“Love, like individuals, is tested by the flame of adversity. If we are faithful and determined, it will temper and refine us, but it will not consume us. Enjoy what you now have. Be a disciple of Christ. Live worthily of marriage even if it doesn't come soon. And cherish it with all your heart when it does.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, However Long & Hard the Road

“How grateful I was that, in addition to being just, God is able to be merciful also.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, However Long & Hard the Road

“Then I had the comforting idea that my first thought wasn't as painful as it sounded. However frightening it may be to realize that all of us have sinned, however frightening it may be to contemplate a just God, surely it is infinitely more frightening to contemplate an unjust God.
A basic principle of Latter-day Saint doctrine is that in order to go forward, we have to know that God is just.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, However Long & Hard the Road

“It is not easy to go without-without physical gratifications or spiritual assurances or material possessions, but sometimes we must, since there is no guarantee of convenience written into our Christian covenant. We must work hard and do right, as Abraham Lincoln said, and sometime our chance will come. And when we've tried, really tried, and waited for what seemed never to be ours, then we may experience what the Savior experienced when 'the angels came, and ministered unto him.' (Matthew 4:11.) Surely that is worth waiting for.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, However Long & Hard the Road

“If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, However Long & Hard the Road

“To those who are trying hard and living right and things still seem burdensome and difficult, I say, take heart. Others have walked that way before you.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, However Long & Hard the Road