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(1/12/00)
"We are beginning to grow and to become a mighty people, but we are as
nothing to what we will be. There is no question in my mind but what the Lord is
going to multiply the Latter-day Saints and bless them more abundantly in the
future than He has ever done in the past, provided of course we are humble and
diligent; provided we seek for the advancement of God's kingdom, and not to do
our own mind and will." — "Conference
Report," April 1899, p. 28
(1/13/00)
"I have given much advice to the Latter-day Saints in my time, and one of
the principle items was never to criticize any one but ourselves. I believe in
fault-finding for breakfast, dinner and supper, but with our own dear
selves." — "Conference
Report," April 1902, p. 60
(1/14/00)
"I may know that the Gospel is true, and my wife may know it; but I do not
imagine for one moment that my children will be born with this knowledge. We
receive a testimony of the Gospel by obeying the laws and ordinances thereof;
and our children will receive that knowledge exactly the same way; and if we do
not teach them, and they do not walk in the straight and narrow path that leads
to eternal life, they will never receive this knowledge." — "Collected Discourses," Vol. 4,
April 6, 1894
(1/15/00)
"I realize and appreciate the fact that the Lord could pour out upon us an
abundance of the wealth of this world, that he could make us all rich, because
the mountains are full of wealth, and he could open up avenues to us that we
could all become wealthy, but in doing this we would have no opportunity of
showing our faith by our works; we would have no opportunity of developing our
manhood and of fitting and preparing ourselves by actual labor to go back and
dwell in the presence of our Heavenly Father." —
"Conference Report," April 1945, p. 5
(1/16/00)
"No man who breaks the Word of Wisdom can gain the same amount of knowledge
and intelligence in this world as the man who obeys that law. I don't care who
he is or where he comes from, his mind will not be as clear, and he cannot
advance as far and as rapidly and retain his power as much as he would if he
obeyed the Word of Wisdom." — "Conference
Report," April 1925, p. 10
(1/17/00)
"I wish that I possessed the power to impress upon the hearts and the minds
of the Latter-day Saints the necessity of becoming familiar with the
commandments contained in the [Doctrine and Covenants], and not only becoming
familiar with them, but that I might have the power to impress upon their hearts
and souls a determination to keep those commandments, to live them in very deed
and in their every-day lives." — "Conference
Report," October 1928, p. 7
(2/9/02)
"We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are:
first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ--And when I say 'Faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ,' we want it distinctly understood that we believe absolutely in Jesus
Christ, that he was the Son of God, and that he did come to the earth with a
divinely-appointed mission to die as the Redeemer of mankind on the cross. We do
not believe that He was just a 'great moral teacher,' but that He is our
Redeemer. (Church News, Sept. 3, 1938, p. 7)" — Heber J. Grant, "The
Atoning Sacrifice: Modern Prophets Testify," Ensign, Apr. 1974,
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4/3/07
"In these hard times financially, I want to repeat to the Latter-day Saints my
firm belief that God our heavenly Father prospers and blesses and gives wisdom
to those men and to those women who are strictly honest with him in the payment
of their tithing. I believe that when a man is in financial difficulty, the best
way to get out of that difficulty (and I speak from personal experience, because
I believe that more than once in my life I have been in the financial mud as
deep as almost anybody) is to be absolutely honest with the Lord, and never to
allow a dollar to come into our hands without the Lord receiving ten per cent of
it. The Lord does not need your money or mine. Compliance with the law of
tithing and donations for ward meetinghouses, stake houses, academies, temples,
missionary work and these various needs, are all for our good. They are but
lessons that we are learning which will qualify and prepare us to become more
godlike and to be fitted to go back into the presence of our heavenly Father." -
Heber J. Grant, "Conference Report," October 1921, p.7
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