Birth: March 28, 1899 Death: December 26, 1973
I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is ….
A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a tru….
We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught..
Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing ….
The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential..
The thing that all of us should strive for is to so live, keeping the commandments of the Lord, that He can answer our prayers. If we will live wort….
Pure womanhood plus priesthood means exaltation. But womanhood without priesthood, or priesthood without pure womanhood doesn't spell exaltation..
I thank the Lord that I may have passed some of the tests, but maybe there will have to be more before I shall have been polished to do all that the ….
Just as a flood-lighted temple is more beautiful in a severe storm or in a heavy fog, so the gospel of Jesus Christ is more glorious in times of inwa….
The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the w….
God grant that each of us here today may so live that all among us, and with us, may see, not us, but that which is divine and comes from God. With t….
The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments that make it a cou….
The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today..
I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet ….
Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word of God, which could lead….
To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built ….
It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments..
The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolution against the norms of the society that fall below the standards that are set for us in the gospel o….
It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give us courage through faith to ….
As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are..
How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is you….