J. Reuben Clark Quotes

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• Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and…
• That man has a spiritual body is evidenced by the account . . . given in the writings of Moses that man was created spiritually…
• Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness…
• I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall…
• Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot…
• You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you…
• It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no…
• We are met today in a general conference. Sometimes, I hear, the people feel, some of them, that perhaps we are not quite as "peppy"…
• But there is one whom you do not deceive, and that is Christ, our Lord. He knows all. Personally, I have felt that nobody need…
• Not only does the Charter Organization not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we shall have future wars, and as to…
• I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes.
• The ravening wolves are amongst us, from our own membership, and they, more than any others, are clothed in sheep's clothing, because they wear the…
• In the service of the Lord it is not where but how you serve.
• If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.
• Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of…
• I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will…
• There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who…
• May the Lord be with us at all times, under all circumstances; may he bring into our lives a burning desire to uphold the Constitution,…
• Eighteen months ago, when first I stood before you I called attention, as earnestly and seriously as I knew how, to what looked to me…
• One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public funds, and I…

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