108 Quotes by Heber J. Grant

No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves.

The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership.

There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity – realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.

He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for “there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God’s Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God.

We sing, “We thank thee, O God, for a prophet to guide us in these latter days,” but many of us ought to put a postscript on it, “Provided he doesn’t guide us to do something that we do not want to do.

I have traveled six solid weeks at a time in different settlements and heard “We Thank Thee, O God, For a Prophet” sung in every one of them. And I have thought time and time again that there were any number of Latter-day Saints who ought to put a postscript on it and say, “We thank thee, O God, for a prophet to guide us in these latter days provided he guides us in the way we want to be guided.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.