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I never think of death: I am too busy thinking of life.
David O. McKay
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David O. McKay
Age: 96 †
Born: 1873
Born: September 8
Died: 1970
Died: January 18
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Huntsville
Utah
David Oman McKay
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Be thankful that sometimes God lets you struggle for a long time before that answer comes. Your character will grow your faith will increase. There is a relationship between these two: the greater your faith, the stronger your character, and increased character enhances your ability to exercise even greater faith.
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Trust is greater than love.
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… The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.
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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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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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Slander is poison to the soul.
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Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.
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Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.
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There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.
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Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
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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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Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.
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If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!
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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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[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.
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Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.
David O. McKay
One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.
David O. McKay
True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.
David O. McKay
The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early
David O. McKay
An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.
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