If we speak of faith in the abstract, it is the power of God by which the worlds are and were made, and is a gift of God to those who believe and obey his commandments.

Brigham Young | Journal of Discourses, 8:259

Topics: Commandments, Creation, Faith, Obedience

“Obedience is a hallmark of prophets; it has provided strength and knowledge to them throughout the ages. It is essential for us to realize that we, as well, are entitled to this source of strength and knowledge. It is readily available to each of us today as we obey God’s commandments.”

Thomas S. Monson | Obedience Brings Blessings

Topics: Commandments, Obedience, Prophets

“The knowledge which we seek, the answers for which we yearn, and the strength which we desire today to meet the challenges of a complex and changing world can be ours when we willingly obey the Lord’s commandments.”

Thomas S. Monson | Obedience Brings Blessings

Topics: Commandments, Knowledge, Obedience, Personal Revelation

“Let the Savior be your “lead” in life. He has said, “I am . . . the Rock of Heaven . . . ; whoso cometh in at the gate and climbeth up by me shall never fall” (Moses 7:53). The Redeemer will safely lead you over the most difficult obstacles of life. His laws are absolutely secure anchors of protection that dispel fear and assure success in an otherwise dangerous world. Such a life will certainly provide you peace and happiness.”

Richard G. Scott | “The Atonement Can Secure Your Peace and Happiness,” Ensign, November 2006, pp. 40-41

Topics: Commandments, Happiness, Jesus Christ

“I have heard people say, and members of the Church too, ‘I have a right to do as I please.’ My answer is: No, you do not. You haven’t any right at all to do just as you please. There is only one right that you have, and that is to do just what I read to you: keep the commandments of Jesus Christ. He has a perfect right to tell us so. We have no right to refuse. I do not care who the man is; I do not care where he lives, or what he is – when the gospel of Jesus Christ is presented to him, he has no right to refuse to receive it. He has the privilege. He is not compelled to receive it, because our Father in heaven has given to everyone of us, in the Church and out, the gift of free agency. That free agency gives us the privilege to accept and be loyal to our Lord’s commandments, but it has never given us the right to reject them. Every man who rejects the commandments of our Father in heaven is rebellious.”

Joseph Fielding Smith | Conference Report, April 1967, pp. 120-21

Topics: Agency, Commandments

“Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music still in us. Let us rather use this precious mortal probation to move confidently and gloriously upward toward the eternal life which God our Father gives to those who keep His commandments.”

Spencer W. Kimball | The Miracle of Forgiveness (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1969), 17.

Topics: Commandments, Music

“There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure our spiritual safety so that we might successfully navigate this often-treacherous mortal existence and return eventually to our Heavenly Father.”

Thomas S. Monson | Obedience Brings Blessings

Topics: Commandments, Obedience

When God commands, do it!

Joseph Smith | History of the Church, 2:170; from “History of the Church” (manuscript), book B-1, p. 558

Topics: Commandments, Obedience

“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”

Ronald Reagan

Topics: Agency, Commandments

“The Savior himself declared that he came to fulfill the law, not to do away with it, but with the law he brought the principle of mercy to temper its enforcement, and to bring hope and encouragement to [the] offenders for forgiveness through [mercy and] repentance.”

David O. McKay | Conference Report, 3 Apr. 1954, p. 11.

Topics: Commandments, Mercy

“I thought for many years that love was an attribute. But it is more. It is a commandment.”

Robert F. Orton

Topics: Commandments, Love

“For each of us to “come unto Christ,” to keep His commandments and follow His example back to the Father is surely the highest and holiest purpose of human existence. To help others do that as well—to teach, persuade, and prayerfully lead them to walk that path of redemption also—surely that must be the second most significant task in our lives.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

Topics: Becoming like God, Commandments, Purpose