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David O. McKay
Age: 96 †
Born: 1873
Born: September 8
Died: 1970
Died: January 18
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Utah
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Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.
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Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.
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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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Men and women who live in America...have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to preserve not only the Constitution of the land but the Christian principles from which sprang that immortal document.
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Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.
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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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All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
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The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.
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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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Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
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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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If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.
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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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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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That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.
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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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He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.
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True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.
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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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Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.
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