David O. McKay Quotes - Page 5

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• When harmony, mutual consideration and trust pass out of the home, hell enters in.

  David O. McKay

  Family, Home, Hell

  "Pathways To Happiness". Book by David O. McKay, p. 296, 1957.

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• A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

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  Life, Moving, Anger

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• And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

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  Honesty, Teaching, Heart

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• As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble thoughts, if we encourage and cherish noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them.

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  Thinking, People, Noble

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• This is the number one responsibility of the Latter-day Saints - to get in the struggle to preserve freedom. Everywhere that Communism succeeds, missionary work, temple work, everything the Church does, dies. Your number one responsibility is to preserve freedom.

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  Struggle, Responsibility, Numbers

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• What-e're thou art, Act well thy part.

  David O. McKay

  Art, Wells

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• Trust is greater than love.

  David O. McKay

  Greater

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• Every member ... a missionary!

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  Missionary, Members

  Conference Report, April 1959.

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• To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.

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  Ignorance, Ignorant, States

  "Pathways To Happiness". Book by David O. McKay, pp. 351-352, 1957.

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• Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

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  Envy, Gossip, Mind

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• We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.

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  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• Next to being one in worshipping God there is nothing in this world upon which the Church should be more united that in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States

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  Church, United States, World

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• Among the immediate obligations and duties resting upon members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today, and one of the most urgent and pressing for attention and action of all liberty loving people, is the preservation of individual liberty.

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  Jesus, People, Church

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• As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

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  Men, Agency, Heritage

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• True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.

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  Motherhood, Practice, Sorrow

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• If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

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  People, World, Firsts

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• To be carnally minded is to be spiritually dead

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• I repeat that no greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the Church, upon all citizens of this republic and of neighboring republics than to protect the freedom vouchsafed by the Constitution of the United States.

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  Responsibility, Church, United States

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• In the well-ordered home we may experience a taste of heaven.

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  Home, Heaven, May

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• Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Next, Life Is

  Improvement Era Magazine, p. 86, February, 1962.

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• I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

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  Father, Believe, Inspired

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• The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

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  Home, America, United States

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• There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

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  Father, Land, Appreciate

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• A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say "no" in the presence of those who mock and jeer, wins the respect and love of men and women whose opinion is most worthwhile.

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  Girl, Character, Sacrifice

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• But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a beauty that all men love, a virtue that wins all men's souls. That beauty is chastity. Chastity without skin beauty may enkindle the soul; skin beauty without chastity can kindle only the eye. Chastity enshrined in the mold of true womanhood will hold true love eternally.

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  Girl, Eye, Winning

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