David O. McKay Quotes - Page 3

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• Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities

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  Spiritual, Passion, Men

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• There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

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  Character, Adversity, Growth

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• What you think about when you don't think, shows who you really are.

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  Thinking, Shows

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• Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid in its establishment? Praying for His will to be done and then not trying to live it, gives you a negative answer at once. You would not grant something to a child who showed that attitude towards a request he is making of you. If we pray for the success of some cause or enterprise, manifestly we are in sympathy with it. It is the height of disloyalty to pray for God's will to be done, and then fail to conform our lives to that will.

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  Children, Attitude, Heart

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• No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children

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  Teacher, Children, Responsibility

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• There is no success which can compensate for the failure of the family.

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• No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence.

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  Home, Names, Parent

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• Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –

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  Loyalty, Self, Expression

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• President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy"

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  Marriage, Couple, Kindness

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• This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.

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  Age, Limitless, Possibility

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• Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has robbed them of their individual liberty and enslaved them to a group of political gangsters.

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  Weed, Long, People

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• Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire.

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  Husband, Fire, Wife

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• Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

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  Giving, Choices, Earth

  LDS General Conference Report, p. 32, April, 1950.

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• Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

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  Love, Happiness, Peace

  LDS General Conference, October 1964.

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• There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

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  Happiness, Attitude, Soul

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• The young man who closes the door behind him, who draws the curtains, and there in silence pleads with God for help, should first pour out his soul in gratitude for health, for friends, for loved ones, for the gospel, for the manifestations of God's existence. He should first count his many blessings and name them one by one.

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  Gratitude, Men, Blessing

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• One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.

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  Time, Fall, Adversity

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• Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

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  Character, Noble, Development

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• I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States. It has been aptly said that "Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be."

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  Home, America, Desire

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• Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

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  Prayer, Blessing, Virtue

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• Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite. . . . There is something within him which urges him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher and more beautiful world.

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  Beautiful, Spiritual, Men

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• … The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.

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  Men, Calling, Fellow Man

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• It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into existence through wise men raised up for that very purpose. We believe it is the duty of the members of the Church to see that this Republic is not subverted either by any sudden or constant erosion of those principles which gave this Nation its birth.

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  Wise, Believe, Men

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• An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

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  Mean, Mind, Progress

  Title of Valedictorian address, 1897.

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• Free agency is a gift of God....The world does not comprehend the significance of that divine gift to the individual. It is as inherent as intelligence which, we are told, has never been nor can be created

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  Agency, Doe, World

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