Heber J. Grant Quotes - Page 2

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• The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God's Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God.

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  Men, Spirit, Praying

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• If we are faithful in keeping the commandments of God His promises will be fulfilled to the very letter. . . . The trouble is, the adversary of men's souls blinds their minds. He throws dust, so to speak, in their eyes, and they are blinded with the things of this world.

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  Eye, Men, Dust

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• The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.

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  Music, Spiritual, Powerful

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• Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.

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  Years, Individual, Capacity

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• If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy, and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation, the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.

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  Art, Men, Criticism

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• The first great commandment was to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, might, mind and strength; and the second was like unto it, to love our neighbor as ourselves. And the best way in the world to show our love for our neighbor is to go forth and proclaim the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, of which He has given us an absolute knowledge concerning its divinity.

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  Jesus, Heart, Mind

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• I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

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  Believe, Ambition, Battle

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• I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

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  Spirit, Guides, Guide Me

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• The Lord is no respector of persons, and will give success to all who work for it. If l can only impress upon the minds of the youth of Zion the eloquence, the inexpressible eloquence of work, I shall feel fully repaid.

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  Work, Zion, Giving

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• The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained

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  Gambling, Practice, Games

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• The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body to undergo an experience in mortality.

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  Father, Men, Maturity

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• I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

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  Accomplishment, I Have Learned, Greatest Accomplishment

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• I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.

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  Sweet, Hands, Fruit

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• He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

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  Men, Names, Heaven

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• The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach us the character of God, and by example and precept pointed out the path which, if we walk in it, will lead us back into his presence. He came to break the bands of death with which man was bound, and made possible the resurrection by which the grave is robbed of its victory and death of its sting.

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  Christmas, Character, Men

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• Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where we are not surrendering the right. We must stay with the right and if we do so God will bless us.

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  Independence, Saint, Constitution

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• I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.

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  Yosemite, Valleys, Half

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• We do appeal to all men and women, realizing the responsibility resting upon them, to seek God our heavenly Father to guide them politically as well as religiously, and to stand for right and for those things that are for the good of this nation.

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  Father, Responsibility, Men

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• Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready to receive the blessings of the Lord, if we fail, on our part, to keep the commandments.

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  Faith, Blessing, Baptism

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• The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.

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  Music, Song, Inspiration

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• There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.

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  Daughter, Son, Saint

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• Let us be ready and willing to follow our file leaders, and to sustain them. ... You will always be blessed and benefitted in following the advice and counsel of those whom God has chosen to preside over the Church. By honoring the man God has chosen, God will honor and bless you; and as you individually do your duty, you will grow and increase in the light and inspiration of the Spirit of God. As we grow and increase individually, so will the Church grow and increase.

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  Inspiration, Blessed, Men

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• No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.

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  Jesus, Inspiration, Men

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• I have no animosity against any living soul.

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  Soul, Animosity

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• In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.

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  Blessing, Temptation, Sorrow

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