"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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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"I know that those who sustained these men [Prophets] with their faith and with their prayers, and with their good works, were blessed of God, not only with an increase of faith and love of God and a testimony of the divinity of the Gospel work in which we are engaged, but they were blessed in their basket, in their store, that their lands were blessed, and that they were blessed with wisdom in their families, to train them in the nurture and admonitions of God."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant |
"...in proportion to our diligence, faithfulness and humility in keeping the commandments of God, He will bless us and assist us in our labors."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"I know of nothing which gives us a greater love of all that is good, than teaching this Gospel of Jesus Christ."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"I believe there is nothing in all the world that can compare with the joy that a man feels when he realizes that he has been the instrument in the hands of the living God of reaching some honest heart, inspiring in it a love of God and the desire to serve Him."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"The devil is ready to blind our eyes with the things of this world, and he would gladly rob us of eternal life, the greatest of all gifts. But it is not given to the devil, and no power will ever be given to him to overthrow any Latter-day Saint that is keeping the commandments of God. There is no power given to the adversary of men’s souls to destroy us if we are doing our duty. If we are not absolutely honest with God, then we let the bars down, then we have destroyed part of the fortifications by which we are protected, and the devil may come in. But no man has ever lost the testimony of the Gospel, no man has ever turned to the right or to the left, who had the knowledge of the truth, who was attending to his duties, who was keeping the Word of Wisdom, who was paying his tithing, who was responding to the calls and duties of his office and calling in the Church."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"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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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant |
"The Latter-day Saints should so organize their affairs, and so shape their finances, that more will be ready and willing, especially those of age and experience, with a testimony and knowledge of the divinity of this work, to go forth [on] missions."
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| Heber J. Grant - 2004 Gen. Conf. Apr. |
"I promise you, as a servant of the living God, that every man and woman who obeys the commandments of God shall prosper, that every promise made of God shall be fulfilled upon their heads, and that they will grow and increase in wisdom, light, knowledge, intelligence, and, above all, in the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey"
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant p.x |
"I want to impress upon your hearts...that you can make no sacrifice but what sooner or later the reward will come to you, either in time or in eternity, and almost without exception when we make any sacrifices in the line of duty in performing those things that are pleasing in the sight of God, we get our reward during our lives."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Prophets: Heber J. Grant |
"There is no danger of any man or woman losing his or her faith in this Church if he or she is humble and prayerful and obedient to duty."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"Hunger makes food very delicious. Hunger for the Gospel of Jesus Christ makes us enjoy [our] conferences."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"When you are in the line of your duty it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every post is in line. But step one step aside, and every post looks as though it were not quite in line. The farther you get away from that straight line, the more crooked the posts will appear. It is the straight and narrow path of duty that will lead you and me back to the presence of God."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"You will always be blessed and benefitted in following the advice and counsel of those whom God has chosen to preside over the Church. By honoring the man God has chosen, God will honor and bless you."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant |
"I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in this our day."
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| Heber J. Grant - teaachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant |
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized on the 6th of April, 1830, in the town of Fayette, Seneca County, New York, and has prospered … , regardless of the persecution and obstacles that it has persistently encountered."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey"
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"If we fail, we, and we alone, are responsible for the failure, because God endows His servants, from the President of the Church down to the humblest member, with all the ability, all the knowledge, all the power that is necessary, faithfully, diligently, and properly to discharge every duty and every obligation that rests upon them, and we, and we alone, will have to answer if we fail in this regard."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"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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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"there is no promise made to any man, woman or child, no matter what testimony they may receive, or what light and intelligence may come to them from God, that they shall remain firm and steadfast in the straight and narrow path that leads to life eternal, only as they shall keep the commandments of God."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"Like the frequent singing of our songs, we can never repeat too often the commandments of the Lord to this people, and urge upon the Saints to live up to them."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"...it is not given to the devil, and no power will ever be given to him to overthrow any Latter-day Saint that is keeping the commandments of God"
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"We can hide the blessings of the Lord by clinging too firmly to the things of this world, we can sacrifice eternal riches—dollars for copper cents, so to speak."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"I say to all Latter-day Saints: keep the commandments of God. That is my keynote—just these few words: keep the commandments of God!"
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant |
"No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"I stand here today as the president of the Church because I have followed the advice and counsel and the burning testimony of the divinity of the work of God, which came to me from my mother."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant |
"...in no single day or hour of our lives would we be able to stand alone and maintain the testimony of the Gospel without the light and inspiration of the Spirit of God."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant |
"I, of course, owe everything to my mother, because my father died when I was only nine days of age; and the marvelous teachings, the faith, the integrity of my mother have been an inspiration to me."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant p.xii |
"It is the power of God, it is the Spirit of God that convinces men; it is not the eloquence, it is not the education, not the fine words, or the magnificent way in which they are spoken, that finds lodgment in the hearts of the children of men to convince them of the Truth."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant |
"There is no such a thing as standing still in the church of God; we cannot live on the testimony received years ago...for there is no age when we can stop in the work and gospel of God."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant |
"What is the gospel? It is the plan of life and salvation. It is that which is of more value than life itself. No wonder we are ready and willing to make sacrifices for the gospel, when we realize what it means if we live it."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"We can generally do that which we wish to do...We can arrange our affairs to get exercise in the shape of golf and otherwise. We can arrange our affairs to have amusements. And if we make up our minds to do so we can arrange our affairs to do temple work."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"...each and every man must live the gospel if he expects to obtain an individual testimony of the divinity of this work."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant |
"Service is the real key to joy."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant |
"I realize that, in teaching the people, unless the speaker is inspired of our Father in Heaven it is impossible to say anything that will be of benefit or worth to the Saints."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"I do not believe that any man lives up to his ideals, but 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. If we are seeking to remedy our own defects, if we are so living that we can ask God for light, for knowledge, for intelligence, and above all for His Spirit, that we may overcome our weaknesses, then, I can tell you, we are in the straight and narrow path that leads to life eternal; then we need have no fear."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"While I have worked hard for Cash, you know, as do all my friends that have a full knowledge of the innermost sentiments of my heart, that Cash has not been my god and that my heart has never been set on it, only to do good with what might come into my possession. I most earniestly desire that I may alwasy feel this way."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant p.xiv |
"I know of no easy formula to success. Persist, persist, PERSIST; work, work, WORK—is what counts in the battle of life."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"Teach and live the first principles of the gospel, and let the mysteries of heaven wait until you get to heaven."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"You need have no fear, my dear brothers and sisters, that any man will ever stand at the head of the Church of Jesus Christ unless our Heavenly Father wants him to be there."
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| Heber J. Grant - teaachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant |
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rests firmly on the revelations of God given through the Prophet Joseph Smith."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"No matter how powerful the testimony or what inspiration there is in it, unless the person listening has a receptive mind it makes very little impression."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"To the man of faith, death is but the taking up again of the life he broke off when he came to this earth."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"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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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"It is by exercise and by practice that we become proficient in any of the vocations or avocations of life, whether it be of a religious or of a secular character."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"I have learned absolutely, that it is the Spirit that giveth life and understanding, and not the letter."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"All the knowledge in the world would not amount to anything unless we put that knowledge into actual practice."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"It is by the performance of the plain, simple, everyday duties [of an LDS Saint] that we will grow in the spirit of God."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
"Success in the eyes of our Creator is very many times, in fact nearly always the exact opposite of man’s estimation of what success is."
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| Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J Grant |
