Harold B. Lee
Harold B. Lee
Harold Bingham Leewas an American religious leader and educator who served as the eleventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsfrom July 1972 until his death in December 1973...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth28 March 1899
CountryUnited States of America
self-esteem men challenges
Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.
doe depends happens
Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.
father men heaven
Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.
heart practice ought
And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion
spiritual eye parent
The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments that make it a counter-part of the body in which it [resides,] "that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual." (D&C 77:2.) It was that which came from God and entered at birth into the infant body prepared by its mortal parents. The spirit was of the "Lord from heaven." The physical body was "of the earth, earthy," (2 Cor. 15:47) or in other words, composed of the elements of which the things in the physical world are composed.
ears would-be lord
If it were not for the assurance that I have that the Lord is near to us, guiding, directing, the burden would be almost beyond my strength, but because I know that He is there, and that He can be appealed to, and if we have ears to hear attuned to Him, we will never be left alone.
honesty war character
To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed
today moonbeams testimony
Testimony is not something you have today, and you are going to have always. A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam. It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.
kindness mean vanity
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
jesus sight knowing
I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is the witness that one may have by the witness of the Holy Ghost to his soul that things are so and that Jesus is the Christ, a living personage.
honesty church gullible
As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.
life children lying
. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.
kings children loyal
Be loyal to the royal that is in you, for you are the child of a King.
thanksgiving long fruit
The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.