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"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
9/19/09
“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.” -
Heber J. Grant, “Gospel Standards: Selections
from the Sermons and Writings of Heber J. Grant,” compiled by G.
Homer Durham, p. 69
5/28/14
If Joseph Smith did not have that
interview with God and Jesus Christ the whole Mormon fabric is a
failure and a fraud. It is not worth anything on earth. But God did
come, God did introduce his Son, God did inspire that man to
organize the Church of Jesus Christ, and all the opposition of the
world is not able to withstand the truth. It is flourishing, it is
growing, and it will grow more. I know beyond a shadow of doubt of
the divinity of this work in which we are engaged. It is one of the
joys of my life at home and abroad, in private and in public to
testify that I know as well as I know that I live, that God lives,
that he hears and answers our prayers. - Heber
J. Grant, "Conference Report," October 1939, Afternoon Meeting,
p.129
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