David O. McKay
David O. McKay
David Oman McKaywas an American religious leader and educator who served as the ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving from 1951 until his death. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 September 1873
CountryUnited States of America
Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls
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.
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.
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.
To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.
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.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.
The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.
The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.
If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.
True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.
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.
Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children