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If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!

David O. McKay

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David O. McKay
Age: 96 †
Born: 1873
Born: September 8
Died: 1970
Died: January 18
Author
Prophet
Teacher
Huntsville
Utah
David Oman McKay
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Spiritual
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True happiness comes only by making others happy.
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Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.
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An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.
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Slander is poison to the soul.
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When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!
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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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All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
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The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.
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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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I never think of death: I am too busy thinking of life.
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The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.
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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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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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True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.
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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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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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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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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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