George A. Smith
George A. Smith
George Albert Smithwas an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and as a member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth26 June 1817
CountryUnited States of America
water people dry
Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.
men power trifles
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
kindness loving-life air
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
heart satisfaction sullen
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
strong temptation enthusiasm
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
religious men self-reliance
How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.
lying israel sight
There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.
faith youth fullness
Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
peace past men
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
believe heart vain
If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
evil soul entrances
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
jesus men arguing
Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.
listening mind quiet
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
memories passion pride
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.