The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong a…

- George A. Smith

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us wi…

- George A. Smith

We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow…

- George A. Smith

How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of d…

- George A. Smith

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

- George A. Smith

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

- George A. Smith

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

- George A. Smith

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

- George A. Smith

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditch…

- George A. Smith