Our Day Star Rising Quotes

“all things work together for good to them that love God” (Romans 8:28). So keep loving. Keep trying. Keep trusting. Keep believing. Keep growing. Heaven is cheering you on today, tomorrow, and forever.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“It says something about his tenacity; it says something about his convictions; it says something about his unwillingness to yield or submit or give up until the very last triumphant moment when Christ comes and the devil is cast into outer darkness forever. But until that moment, he believes he is in this war, believes that he still has not only a fighting chance but an almost overwhelming opportunity for victory. He understands that he has lost the Savior of this world and a number of righteous men and women from Adam and Eve down to the present. But he believes he has not lost you and me. He thinks that our own sons and daughters are perfectly fair game; and if there are those among us who keep the commandments of God and have a testimony of Jesus, he will simply roll out heavier artillery and go after them as well. Satan is proud and relentless. He believes he will yet win the major portion of the children of God. He took a third of them once before, and he thinks he can take a goodly number the second time around.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“want you to know that I have not given my life to a fairy tale. This work is not a joke we are trying to play on someone. As the Apostle Peter said, “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty” (2 Peter 1:16). This gospel is not a “cunningly devised fable,” as some accuse it of being. That idea offends me; it is an insult to me. I was not born yesterday. During the course of my life, I have read several books; I have been to two or three good schools; I even had the privilege of presiding over a good school. Along the way, I have met kings and queens, princes, and prime ministers. So, this is not my first rodeo, as they say; I am not foolish enough to go off on some wild-goose chase. Rather than racing around the world at my age, I could be home, doing whatever it is that people do when they are octogenarians. So why am I not home? It is because this is the very Church and kingdom of God on earth. I will say that until I have no breath left in my lungs or words upon my lips to say it. This is not “a cunningly devised fable.” It is God’s very truth!”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“Living the gospel is not limited to times when it is convenient, when it is comfortable, when the sea is calm and there is no wind blowing. Anyone can hold the tiller of their ship when there is no wind. Anyone can take the boat into the bay when there is not a wave or a ripple in sight. The Lord needs people who can handle their ship in a storm. He needs people who can be reliable in the hard times, in the challenging times. That is when we have to be at our best. “If, when ye do well and suffer for it, yet take it patiently, this is acceptable with God” (1 Peter 2:20).”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“Don’t ask if “justice” doesn’t demand that it be the other way around. No, whatever you do, don’t ask for justice. You and I know that what we plead for is mercy, and that is what we must be willing to give.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“There have always been questions about the future. Every young person or every young couple in every era has had to walk by faith into what has always been some uncertainty—starting with Adam and Eve in those first tremulous steps out of the Garden of Eden. But that is all right. This is the plan. It will be okay. Just be faithful. God is in charge. He knows your name and He knows your need.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“. seeketh not her own” (1 Corinthians 13:4–5). I have heard prophets and other leaders teach publicly and privately that most problems in love and marriage ultimately start with selfishness. In outlining ideal love in which Christ, the most unselfish man who ever lived, is the great example, it is not surprising that this scriptural commentary starts here.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“The Apostle Paul taught the inspired concept that “Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 11:11). I know the truth of that in my own life. No prophet, no Apostle, no President of the Church, no mission president, no bishop, no deacons quorum advisor, no Scoutmaster, no seminary teacher, no one in all this world has taught me what Sister Holland has taught me.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. . . . Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27). What a stunning view of life in the most agonizing of hours! How can He possibly say that, facing what He knows He is facing? Because this is the Church of the happy endings! This victory is already won. Yet I see cheerless Latter-day Saints with a crisis of faith here, a skeptical heart there, and more than enough guilt or depression to go around. I think some of us must have that remnant of Puritan heritage still in us that says it is somehow wrong to be comforted or helped, that we are supposed to be miserable about something. “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27).”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end” (John 13:1).”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“Without likening ourselves to Him too much, that symbol of the cup that cannot pass is a cup that comes in our life as well as in His. It is in a much lesser way, to a much lesser degree, but it comes often enough to teach us that we have to yield, we have to obey.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“Every truth that a missionary teaches—whether that be faith, repentance, baptism, or any other element of the gospel message—is only an appendage to the central message of all time: that Jesus is the Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, the Holy Messiah, the Promised One, the Savior and Redeemer of the World, that He alone burst the bands of death and triumphed over the captivity of hell, that not one of us could ever have those blessings without His merciful, grace-filled intervention in our behalf, and that there never shall be any “other name given nor any other way nor means whereby salvation can come unto the children of men, only in and through the name of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“Prepare. Plan. Work. Sacrifice. Rework. Spend cheerfully on matters of worth. Carry the calm, and wear the assurance of having done the best you could with what you had. If you work hard and prepare earnestly, it will be very difficult for you to give in or give up or wear down. If you labor with faith in God and in yourself and in your future, you will have built upon a rock. Then, when the winds blow and the rains come—as surely they will—you shall not fall (see Matthew 7:24–25).”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“God knows what you need. He wants you to pray about what you need, and He wants you to work for it. But mostly He wants you to believe He can and will provide. He knows what you need. Seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness and remember that the troubles of this day are enough. Don’t worry about yesterday, and don’t worry about tomorrow. Don’t be one of those victims who worry about all the troubles they can think of that have ever existed or ever will exist.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“Edward Everett Hale reportedly said, “Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time.” I know some people who bear three kinds at once—all they have had, all they now have, and all they expect to have in the future. But life will be better if you discipline yourself to never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“How grateful I am that at least God can bless those who despitefully use Him because, without wanting or intending to do so, we all despitefully use Him sometimes.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“. We do not give the Savior whimsical names, but He rightfully could be recognized as the Great Physician.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“Cherish your spiritual burdens because God will converse with you through them and will use you to do His work if you carry them well.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“On the example of the Savior Himself and His call to His Apostles, and with the need for peace and comfort ringing in our ears, I ask you to be a healer, be a helper, be someone who joins in the work of Christ in lifting burdens, in making the load lighter, in making things better. Isn’t that the phrase we used to use as children when we had a bump or a bruise? Didn’t we say to Mom or Dad, “Make it better”? Well, lots of people on your right hand and on your left are carrying bumps and bruises that they hope will be healed and made whole. Someone within reasonable proximity to you today is carrying a spiritual or physical or emotional burden of some sort or an affliction drawn from life’s catalog of a thousand kinds of sorrow. In the spirit of Christ’s first invitation to Philip and Andrew and then to Peter and the whole of His Twelve Apostles, jump into this work. Help people. Heal old wounds, and try to make things better. In short, I ask you to “follow Him.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“I am convinced that faith was designated as the first principle of the gospel because somehow our Father in Heaven knew that fear would always be with us. We have to start with faith, because fear, if we let it, can be at every turn. Please don’t yield to fear. Fear comes of ignoring what we know.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“So join hands and be filled with faith and enjoy life to the fullest. Embrace the promises and possibilities of this stage of life and this moment in history. Don’t worry about what lies ahead. Live your life and have faith. Faith begins with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that leads to faith in everything else: faith in the future and faith in our families and faith in our prospects and our promises and our possibilities.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland

“It underscores the thought I heard many years ago that surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don’t expect it and often feel they don’t deserve it. I do not know who may need to hear the message of forgiveness inherent in this parable, but however late you think you are, however many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made or talents you think you don’t have, or however far from home and family and God you feel you have traveled, I testify that you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love. It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of the Atonement of Jesus Christ shines.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland, Our Day Star Rising: Exploring the New Testament with Jeffrey R. Holland