Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures;… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Let us instill into the hearts of our children the love of freedom. Teach them that to be free is as precious… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions.… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Seeking the pleasure of conjugality without a willingness to assume the responsibilities of rearing a family is one of the onslaughts that… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Free agency is a gift of God....The world does not comprehend the significance of that divine gift to the individual. It is as inherent… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
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… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“No thing worth while is obtained in this life without sacrificing, without putting forth effort. The evil one thrusts things upon us but God… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image