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David O. McKay Biography

David Oman McKay (September 8, 1873 – January 18, 1970) was an American religious leader and educator who served as the ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1951 until his death in 1970. Ordained an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1906, McKay was a general authority for nearly 64 years, longer than anyone else in LDS Church history, except Eldred G. Smith (though Smith was not active as a general authority for many years).

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Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint. . . Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.

Children, Considerate, Encouragement, Responsibility

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

Inspirational, Positive, Challenges, Life, Capacity, Big

There is no success which can compensate for the failure of the family.

Compensate, Failure, Family, Success

True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.

Consists, Exercise, Happiness, Liberty, Long, Peace

I have but one thought in my heart for the young folk of the Church and that is that they be happy. I know of no other place than home where more happiness can be found in this life. It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home.

Heart, Heaven, Home, Ideal, Place

No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.

Jesus, Real, Teaching, Born, Nature

True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.

Lying, Mathematicians, Men, Proficient, Seeks, Truth

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.

Teaching, Destiny, Thinking, Nations, Think, Apparent

The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.

Expression, Determined, Action, Thoughts, Seed, Outward

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

Ask, Blessing, Implies, Prayer, Sincere, Virtue

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

Agency, Gift, Heritage, Life, Men, Precious

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

Home, Heaven, Continuation, Possible, Make

I repeat that no greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the Church, upon all citizens of this republic and of neighboring republics than to protect the freedom vouchsafed by the Constitution of the United States.

Church, Constitution, Responsibility, Rests, United, United States

The greatest spiritual blessing comes from helping another.

Blessing, Greatest, Helping, Spiritual

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

Family, Wall, Home, Greatest, Work

And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

Character, Honesty, Life, Love, Policy, Teaching

The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual.

Affecting, America, Constitution, Destiny, Individual, Two

A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield.

Character, Power, Men, Impulses, Servility, Yield

Slander is poison to the soul.

Gossip, Poison, Slander, Soul

The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.

Close, Comfort, Life, Life Is, This Life

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