J. Reuben Clark Quotes

#1. If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

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#2. We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

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#3. I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

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#4. When we really get into hard times, where food is scarce or there is none at all, and so with clothing and shelter, money may be no good for there may be nothing to buy, and you cannot eat money, you cannot get enough of it together to burn to keep you warm, and you cannot wear it.

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#5. Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

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#6. If the gospel is only for the learned, how few there are of us who could have any use for it.

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#7. It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

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#8. It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

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#9. The youth of the Church are hungry for things of the Spirit; they are eager to learn the gospel, and they want it straight, undiluted" (The Charted Course of the Church in Education, rev. ed. [1994], 3).

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#10. That man has a spiritual body is evidenced by the account ... given in the writings of Moses that man was created spiritually in heaven before he was given a natural body.

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#11. Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

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#12. In the service of the Lord it is not where but how you serve.

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#13. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.

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#14. The ravening wolves are amongst us, from our own membership, and they, more than any others, are clothed in sheep's clothing, because they wear the habiliments of the priesthood ... We should be careful of them.

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#15. I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes.

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#16. There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

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#17. A mind obsessed with sex is good for nothing else.

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