Stephen L. Richards Quotes

#1. The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness.

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#2. Keeping the commandments ... is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

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#3. I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.

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#4. Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.

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#5. Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.

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#6. Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

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#7. I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.

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#8. [Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations ...

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