212 Quotes by David O. McKay

No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God’s children.

Always remember that a soldier’s pack is lighter than a slave’s chains.

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God’s inspiration.

What-e’re thou art, Act well thy part.

Next to being one in worshipping God there is nothing in this world upon which the Church should be more united that in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States.

To be ignorant of one’s own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.

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.

If we would change the world, we must first change people’s thoughts.

Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –.