Heber J. Grant Quotes

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• President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.'

  Heber J. Grant

  President, Sometimes, Waldo Emerson

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• There is a still small voice telling us what is right, and if we listen to that still small voice we shall grow and increase in strength and power, in testimony and in ability not only to live the gospel but to inspire others to do so.

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  Voice, Inspire, Increase

  "The Path of Safety", Improvement Era, December, 1937.

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• I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and say, because they cannot do as well as somebody else, that they will not do anything. God has given to some people ten talents; to others, he has given one; but they who improve the one talent will live to see the day when they will far outshine those who have ten talents but fail to improve them.

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  Girl, Believe, Boys

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• Satan...[plans] to destroy liberty and freedom ~ economic, political, and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread, and most complete tyranny that has ever oppressed men. He is working under such perfect disguise that many do not recognize either him or his methods.

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  Religious, Men, Perfect

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• I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.

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  Success, Heart, Humble

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• If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

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  Motivation, Achievement, Trying

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• The Lord does not need your tithing, as far as He is concerned, but you need it for your growth, spiritually and temporally, that the windows of heaven may be opened and the Spirit of the living God given to you.

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  Heaven, Growth, Doe

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• If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.

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  Heart, Mean, Contentment

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• Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

  Heber J. Grant

  Teaching, Example, Poor

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• Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

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  Dream, Amount

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• One can never tell what will be the result of faithful service rendered, nor do we know when it will come back to us or to those with whom we are associated. The reward may not come at the time, but in dividends later. I believe we will never lose anything in life by giving service, by making sacrifices, and doing the right thing.

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  Believe, Sacrifice, Giving

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• The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves to go back and dwell with our Heavenly Father; and our Father, knowing the faults and failings of men has given us certain commandments to obey, and if we will examine those requirements and the things that devolve upon us we will find that they are all for our individual benefit and advancement. The school of life in which we are placed and the lessons that are given to us by our Father will make of us exactly what He desires, so that we may be prepared to dwell with Him.

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  Life, Father, School

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• In the quiet hours, in the heat of battle, and through the hazards of the day; in times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone, and with our families gathered around us, with gratitude for the blessings of life, for understanding of its problems, and for strength to endure to the end.

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  Gratitude, Blessing, Temptation

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• Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

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  Men, Architect, Feels

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• If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God.

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  Desire, Spirit, Commandments Of God

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• I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we preach.

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  Believe, Practice, Accomplish

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• May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.

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  Disappointment, Blessed, Mean

  "Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant" by Heber J. Grant, (Ch. 5), www.lds.org. 2011.

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• There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

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  Jesus, Heart, Judging

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• The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership

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  People, Church, Principles

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• Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.

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  Judging, Thank God, Opinion

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• No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey.

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  Obstacles, Command, Insurmountable

  "Semi-annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day", vol.70, p. 18, 1899.

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• No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves

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  Saint, Earth, Latter

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• The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee, as well as from this stand, is that the Constitution of our country was written by men inspired of the Lord God Almighty. Therefore we, as Latter-day Saints, more than any other people, ought to be supporters of the Constitution, and all constitutional law.

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  Mother, Country, Children

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• The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God's Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God.

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  Men, Spirit, Praying

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• I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

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  Believe, Ambition, Battle

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