David O. McKay Quotes

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  • When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their offspring the use of contraceptives is to be condemned.

  • This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.

  • 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.

  • All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power. Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it.

  • I never think of death: I am too busy thinking of life.

  • The greatest spiritual blessing comes from helping another.

  • The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

  • The development of our spiritual nature should concern us most. Spirituality is the highest acquisition of the soul, the divine in man; 'the supreme, crowning gift that makes him king of all created things.' It is the consciousness of victory over self and of communion with the infinite. It is spirituality alone which really gives one the best in life.

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  • Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.

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  • If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

  • Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

  • The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.

  • That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.

  • The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'

  • Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life.

  • Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world.

  • Seeking the pleasure of conjugality without a willingness to assume the responsibilities of rearing a family is one of the onslaughts that now batter at the structure of the American home. Intelligence and mutual consideration should be ever-present factors in determining the coming of children to the home.

  • Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

  • A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

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  • No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

  • To be carnally minded is to be spiritually dead

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

  • No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children

  • There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.

  • We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.

  • It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home

  • 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.

  • The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

  • True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

  • Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.

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