{"id":52320,"date":"2026-01-02T03:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T10:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=52320"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:10:41","slug":"classic-president-holland-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/classic-president-holland-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic President Holland Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are a handful of general authorities whose way with words guaranteed them a certain this-world immortality that goes beyond Wikipedia lists or early childhood memories of General Conference. Elder Maxwell was one, and I think President Holland is another. I’ve been seeing various people post some of their favorite or most impactful President Holland talks, so I’ve collated them together to produce a listing of the classic Holland talks. Feel free to add any I may have missed in the comments.<\/div>\n
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Missionary Work and the Atonement<\/a><\/div>\n
However Long and Hard the Road<\/a><\/div>\n
The Bitter Cup and the Bloody Baptism<\/a><\/div>\n
Of Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments<\/a><\/div>\n
The First Great Commandment<\/a><\/div>\n
Be Ye Therefore Perfect–Eventually<\/a><\/div>\n
“Cast Not Away Therefore Your Confidence.”\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n
The Grandeur of God<\/a><\/div>\n
Where Justice, Love, and Mercy Meet<\/a><\/div>\n
Prophets in the Land Again<\/a><\/div>\n
“An High Priest of Good Things to Come”<\/a><\/div>\n
An Inconvenient Messiah<\/a><\/div>\n
Within the Clasp of Your Arms<\/a><\/div>\n
Don’t You Dare Go Home: Not publicly available, but they showed clips of it in the MTC when I was there. If I recall correctly, he pivoted halfway in the talk and said he felt prompted that somebody needed to hear a different message, and then he gave a very tear-jerking talk about not going home.<\/div>\n
Remember Lot’s Wife<\/a><\/div>\n
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There are a handful of general authorities whose way with words guaranteed them a certain this-world immortality that goes beyond Wikipedia lists or early childhood memories of General Conference. Elder Maxwell was one, and I think President Holland is another. I’ve been seeing various people post some of their favorite or most impactful President Holland talks, so I’ve collated them together to produce a listing of the classic Holland talks. Feel free to add any I may have missed in the comments. Missionary Work and the Atonement However Long and Hard the Road The Bitter Cup and the Bloody Baptism Of Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments The First Great Commandment Be Ye Therefore Perfect–Eventually “Cast Not Away Therefore Your Confidence.”\u00a0 The Grandeur of God Where Justice, Love, and Mercy Meet Prophets in the Land Again “An High Priest of Good Things to Come” An Inconvenient Messiah Within the Clasp of Your Arms Don’t You Dare Go Home: Not publicly available, but they showed clips of it in the MTC when I was there. If I recall correctly, he pivoted halfway in the talk and said he felt prompted that somebody needed to hear a different message, and then he gave a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10403,"featured_media":52321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2970,1284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-leadership-and-policies","category-general-conference-features"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/images.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52328,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52320\/revisions\/52328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}