212 Quotes by David O. McKay

An Unsatisfied Appetite for Knowledge Means Progress and Is the State of a Normal Mind.

True happiness comes only by making others happy – the practical application of the Savior’s doctrine of losing one’s life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man’s free agency is a God-given gift.

Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love; every brave suffering for the right; every surrender of self to something higher than self; every loyalty to an ideal; every unselfish devotion to principle; every helpfulness to humanity; every act of self-control; every fine courage of the soul, undefeated by pretense or policy, but by being, doing, and living of good for the very good’s sake – that is spirituality.

That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don’t have to think.

Even a barn looks better when it’s painted.

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men’s lives.

Love is the divinest attribute of the human soul.

Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God’s greatest gift to man.