J. Reuben Clark Quotes

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

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

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

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.

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.

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.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

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.

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow.

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

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood.

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.

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

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.

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.