This is the number one responsibility of the Latter-day Saints - to get in the struggle to preserve freedom. Everywhere that Communism succeeds, missionary work, temple work, everything the Church does, dies. Your number one responsibility is to preserve freedom.

David O. McKay

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No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

David O. McKay

family work home

I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

David O. McKay

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Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

David O. McKay

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When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

David O. McKay

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The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.

David O. McKay

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Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

David O. McKay

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Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company we like and keep, so nothing foretells futurity like the thoughts over which we brood. … To have the approval of your conscience when you are alone with your thoughts is like being in the company of true and loving friends. To merit your own self-respect gives strength to character. Conscience is the link that binds your soul to the spirit of God.

David O. McKay

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The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

David O. McKay

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There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.

David O. McKay

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Well,’ you may ask, ‘how may I know when I am in love?’ . . . George Q. Morris [who later became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, gave this reply]: ‘My mother once said that if you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to achieve, who inspires you to do your best, and to make the most of yourself, such a young woman is worthy of your love and is awakening love in your heart.

David O. McKay

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I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.

David O. McKay

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Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

David O. McKay

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Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.

David O. McKay

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All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power. Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it.

David O. McKay

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President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy"

David O. McKay

marriage couple kindness

It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home

David O. McKay

continuation home heaven

Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

David O. McKay

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Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

David O. McKay

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True happiness comes only by making others happy.

David O. McKay

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Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.

David O. McKay

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