“Work on the projects ahead, and when you have taken one step in the acquiring of faith, it will give you the assurance in your soul that you can go forward and take the next step, and by degrees your power or influence will increase until eventually, in this world or the next, you will say to the Mt. Zerin’s [see Ether 12:30] in your life, “Be thou removed.” You will say to whatever encumbers your course of eternal progress, “Depart,” and it will be so”

Bruce R. McConkie | "Lord, Increase Our Faith,” BYU Speeches of the Year, October 1967, p. 11

Topics: Faith, Miracles, Work

Thus, faith in Christ leads to righteous action, which increases our spiritual capacity and power. Understanding that faith is a principle of action and of power inspires us to exercise our moral agency in compliance with gospel truth, invites the redeeming and strengthening powers of the Savior’s Atonement into our lives, and enlarges the power within us whereby we are agents unto ourselves (see D&C 58:28).

Elder David A. Bednar | “Ask in Faith,” Ensign, May 2008, p. 95

Topics: Agency, Faith, Work

True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to righteous action. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that “faith [is] the first principle in revealed religion, and the foundation of all righteousness” and that it is also “the principle of action in all intelligent beings” (Lectures on Faith [1985], 1). Action alone is not faith in the Savior, but acting in accordance with correct principles is a central component of faith. Thus, “faith without works is dead” (James 2:20).

Elder David A. Bednar | “Ask in Faith,” Ensign, May 2008

Topics: Faith, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Work

“LDS artists must earn inspiration, just as other artists have. . . . It doesn’t come just because artists are members of the LDS church, they still must work for it.”

Boyd K. Packer | “Art Is Uplifting,” 4

Topics: Art, Work

“[While discussing the debate between faith and works] “It does seem to me like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most necessary.”

CS Lewis | Mere Christianity

Topics: Justice, Mercy, Work

When faith springs up in the heart, good works follow, and good works will increase that pure faith within them.

Brigham Young | Journal of Discourses, 3:155

Topics: Faith, Work

If the people will only be full of good works, I will insure that they will have faith in time of need.

Brigham Young | Journal of Discourses, 3:154

Topics: Faith, Work

“I hope that you are not afraid of tough classes. I never did have a ‘cinch’ class. … You simply have to apply yourself. I hope that you want to be so well equipped that you can compete in this competitive world. I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions, whether they be in your courses of study which you elect to take, or whether they be in the direction of the academic attainments which you strive to achieve. “My young brothers and sisters, don’t take counsel of your fears. Don’t say to yourselves, ‘I’m not wise enough, or I can’t apply myself sufficiently well to study this difficult subject or in this difficult field, so I shall choose the easier way.’ I plead with you to tax your talent, and our Heavenly Father will make you equal to those decisions.”

Thomas S. Monson

Topics: Education, Work

“The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.”

Joseph Smith | History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Topics: Grace, Work

“True faith is not to be brought about by overwhelming and intimidating intervention from God”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell | “Not My Will, But Thine.” Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1988.

Topics: Faith, Miracles, Work

“Real hope is much more than wishful musing. Hope is realistic anticipation taking the form of determination – a determination not merely to survive but to “endure . . . well” to the end. In the geometry of restored theology, hope has a greater circumference than faith. If faith increases, the perimeter of hope stretches correspondingly. Hope keeps us “anxiously engaged” in good causes even when these appear to be losing causes. Those with true hope often see their personal circumstances shaken, like kaleidoscopes, again and again. Yet with the “eye of faith,” they still see divine pattern and purpose. Whatever our particular furrow, we are to “plow in hope,” without looking back or letting yesterday hold tomorrow hostage.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell | Ensign, November 1994

Topics: Faith, Hope, Work

“Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.”

Gordon B. Hinckley | Stand a Little Taller

Topics: Knowledge, Work

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Topics: Prayer, Work

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

Maya Angelou

Topics: Attitude, Work

“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.”

Joseph B. Wirthlin | Shall He Find Faith On The Earth?, October 2002 General Conference

Topics: Faith, Work

“At times all of us are called upon to stretch ourselves and do more than we think we can. I’m reminded of President Theodore Roosevelt’s quip, “I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”

James E. Faust | “I Believe I Can, I Knew I Could,” Ensign, November 2002, p. 50

Topics: Diligence, Work

“To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done.”

Richard G. Scott | "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74

Topics: Goals, Work

Now, may we refer specifically to vocational work or employment. The employment we choose should be honorable and challenging. Ideally, we need to seek that work to which we are suited by interest, by aptitude, and by training. A man’s work should do more than provide adequate income; it should provide him with a sense of self-worth and be a pleasure—something he looks forward to each day.

Howard W. Hunter | Prepare for Honorable Employment

Topics: Career, Work

“The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing my thoughts in prose and verse; history. … I have tried all. But I feel I have not said a thousandth part of what is in me. When I go down to the grave, I can say, like so many others, “I have finished my day’s work,” but I can not say, “I have finished my life.” My day’s work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. . . . My work is only beginning.”

Houssaye | “Victor Hugo on Immortality,” Fifty Years, 324–25

Topics: Becoming like God, Eternal Life, Work